Sparsening and temporal sharpening of olfactory representations in the honeybee mushroom bodies

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3303-3313

  Szyszka, Paul ^a   Ditzen, Mathias ^a   Galkin, Alexander ^a   Galizia, C Giovanni ^b,c   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OCTANOL; CALCIUM ION; HEXANOL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; PEPPERMINT OIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; KENYON CELL; MUSHROOM BODY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SENSE ORGANS; SMELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27144524122     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00397.2005     Document Type: Article

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