Masse, N. Y., Turner, G. C., Jefferis, G. S. X. E. (August 2009) Olfactory Information Processing in Drosophila. Current Biology, 19 (16). R700-R713. ISSN 0960-9822
Abstract
In both insect and vertebrate olfactory systems only two synapses separate the sensory periphery from brain areas required for memory formation and the organisation of behaviour. In the Drosophila olfactory system, which is anatomically very similar to its vertebrate counterpart, there has been substantial recent progress in understanding the flow of information from experiments using molecular genetic, electrophysiological and optical imaging techniques. In this review, we shall focus on how olfactory information is processed and transformed in order to extract behaviourally relevant information. We follow the progress from olfactory receptor neurons, through the first processing area, the antennal lobe, to higher olfactory centres. We address both the underlying anatomy and mechanisms that govern the transformation of neural activity. We emphasise our emerging understanding of how different elementary computations, including signal averaging, gain control, decorrelation and integration, may be mapped onto different circuit elements.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | organism description > animal > insect > Drosophila bioinformatics > computational biology organism description > animal behavior > learning organism description > animal behavior > memory organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > neural networks neurobiology organism description > animal behavior > olfactory |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Turner lab |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Librarian |
| Date: | 25 August 2009 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2012 15:41 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2013 16:08 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/26140 |
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