A computational model of the response of honey bee antennal lobe circuitry to odor mixtures: Overshadowing, blocking and unblocking can arise from lateral inhibition

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-14

  Linster, Christiane ^a   Smith, Brian H ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennal lobe; Associative learning; Blocking; Computational model; Honey bee; Mixtures; Olfaction; Overshadowing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; HONEYBEE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 0030798369     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02271-1     Document Type: Article

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