Illuminating Vertebrate Olfactory Processing

Spors, H., Albeanu, D. F., Murthy, V. N., Rinberg, D., Uchida, N., Wachowiak, M., Friedrich, R. W. (October 2012) Illuminating Vertebrate Olfactory Processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (41). pp. 14102-14108. ISSN 0270-6474

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Abstract

The olfactory system encodes information about molecules by spatiotemporal patterns of activity across distributed populations of neurons and extracts information from these patterns to control specific behaviors. Recent studies used in vivo recordings, optogenetics, and other methods to analyze the mechanisms by which odor information is encoded and processed in the olfactory system, the functional connectivity within and between olfactory brain areas, and the impact of spatiotemporal patterning of neuronal activity on higher-order neurons and behavioral outputs. The results give rise to a faceted picture of olfactory processing and provide insights into fundamental mechanisms underlying neuronal computations. This review focuses on some of this work presented in a Mini-Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in 2012.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: organism description > animal behavior
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell functions
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions
organism description > animal behavior > olfactory
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > olfactory bulb
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions
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Communities: CSHL labs > Albeanu lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: 10 October 2012
Date Deposited: 18 Jan 2013 16:39
Last Modified: 03 Apr 2015 14:26
PMCID: PMC3752119
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/27050

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