Modeling the response of a population of olfactory receptor neurons to an odorant

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-355

  Sandström, Malin ^a,b,c   Lansner, Anders ^b,c,d   Hellgren Kotaleski, Jeanette ^b,c   Rospars, Jean Pierre ^a,e  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UR341 National Agronomical Research Institute (INRA)   (France)

Author keywords

Neural population modeling; Olfaction; Olfactory receptor neuron; Sensory coding

Indexed keywords

ODORS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

FIRING FREQUENCY; FIRING RATES; NEURAL POPULATION MODELING; NEURAL POPULATIONS; OLFACTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURON; OLFACTORY RECEPTORS; POPULATION MODEL; SENSORY CODING; SINGLE PARAMETER;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMELLING;

EID: 70350575367     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-009-0147-5     Document Type: Article

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