A Self-organizing Model of Chemotopic Convergence for Olfactory Coding
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Abslract-This article presents a self-organizing model of convergence for the early stages of the olfactory pathway. The model generates a chemotopic projection from olfactory receptor neurons onto glomeruli based on receptor aflinity distributions. The resulting glomerular images reveal an olfactory code consistent with neurobiology, whereby odor quality is encoded by a unique spatial pattern across glomeruli, and odor concentration is related to the intensity and spread of this pattern. The model is also able to predict a broadening of the intensity tuning range of glomeruli. Keywords-Olfactory coding, chemotopic convergence, receptor aflinity distributions, self-organization.
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