Differential odor processing in two olfactory pathways in the honeybee

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2009, Pages

  Yamagata, Nobuhiro ^a,b,d   Schmuker, Michael ^a   Szyszka, Paul ^c   Mizunami, Makoto ^b,e   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium imaging; Functional division; Insect; Mushroom body; Olfaction; Parallel processing; Projection neuron

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956485474     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.06.016.2009     Document Type: Article

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