Is the olfactory bulb computationally similar to the retina?

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  • Ambarish S Ghatpande
چکیده

The computational role of the olfactory bulb remains a mystery after 60 yr of physiological research. Recently, Fantana and colleagues proposed a new model of bulb function based on sparse inhibitory connections between glomeruli, the functional units of the bulb, rather than the existing lateral inhibition model. I present a summary of their model here and its implications along with comparison to recent work in the very similar Drosophila olfactory system.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of neurophysiology

دوره 101 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009