Olfactory coding with all-or-nothing glomeruli

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3134-3142

  Koulakov, Alexei ^a,d   Gelperin, Alan ^b   Rinberg, Dmitry ^c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MODEL; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SMELLING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATS; SMELL;

EID: 37549067293     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00560.2007     Document Type: Article

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