Odor concentration invariance by chemical ratio coding

Many animal species rely on chemical signals to extract ecologically important information from the environment. Yet in natural conditions chemical signals will frequently undergo concentration changes that produce differences in both level and pattern of activation of olfactory receptor neurons. Th...

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Main Authors: Naoshige Uchida, Zachary F Mainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2008-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.06.003.2007/full