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The mechanism of the olfactory system can be divided into a peripheral one, sensing an external stimulus and encoding it as an electric signal in neurons, and a central one, where all signals are integrated and processed in the central nervous system. The peripheral olfactory system receptors are connected to bipolar olfactory receptor neurons in the olfactory epithelium.

Fot the central olfactory system, axons from the olfactory sensory neurons converge in the olfactory bulb.

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