Stimulus encoding during the early stages of olfactory processing: A modeling study using an artificial olfactory system

Neurocomputing

Volumn 38-40, Issue , 2001, Pages 299-306

  Pearce, T C ^a   Verschure, P F M J ^b   White, J ^c   Kauer, J S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial nose; Neural code; Olfaction; Receptor convergence; Stimulus encoding

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DATA PROCESSING;

CHEMOSENSORS; OLFACTORY SYSTEMS;

NEUROLOGY;

TOLUENE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME;

EID: 0035383925     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00455-6     Document Type: Article

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