Rapid odor processing in the honeybee antennal lobe network

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2009, Pages

  Krofczik, Sabine ^a,b   Menzel, Randolf ^a,b   Nawrot, Martin P ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antennal lobe; Apis mellifera; Latency code; Local interneurons; Odor mixture; Olfaction; Projection neurons; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAL LOBES; APIS MELLIFERA; LATENCY CODE; LOCAL INTERNEURONS; OLFACTION; TEMPORAL CODING;

NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; ODORS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 68249092469     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.10.009.2008     Document Type: Article

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