Information processing in the olfactory systems of insects and vertebrates |
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Authors: | Kay Leslie M Stopfer Mark |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, 940 E 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637, USA. |
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Abstract: | Insects and vertebrates separately evolved remarkably similar mechanisms to process olfactory information. Odors are sampled by huge numbers of receptor neurons, which converge type-wise upon a much smaller number of principal neurons within glomeruli. There, odor information is transformed by inhibitory interneuron-mediated, cross-glomerular circuit interactions that impose slow temporal structures and fast oscillations onto the firing patterns of principal neurons. The transformations appear to improve signal-to-noise characteristics, define odor categories, achieve precise odor identification, extract invariant features, and begin the process of sparsening the neural representations of odors for efficient discrimination, memorization, and recognition. |
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