Odor Representations in Olfactory Cortex: "Sparse" Coding, Global Inhibition, and Oscillations

Neuron

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 850-861

  Poo, Cindy ^a   Isaacson, Jeffry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; MOLNEURO; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; QUINOXALINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67249088943     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.05.022     Document Type: Article

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