Matthew Smith, co-director of 麻豆村鈥檚聽聽(CNBC) and S.P. Arun, professor and chair of the Center for Neuroscience at the Indian Institute of Science, described Olson as a colleague and mentor who 鈥減rovided important insights into a wide range of fundamental issues in the neural basis of cognition with elegant experiments and incisive analyses.鈥 They also reflected that he was a 鈥渄eep and rigorous thinker with an exhaustive knowledge of the field.鈥
聽in an obituary Smith and Arun wrote for the journal Neuron.