A combined perceptual, Physico-Chemical, and imaging approach to 'Odour-Distances' suggests a categorizing function of the Drosophila antennal lobe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Niewalda, Thomas ^a,b   Völler, Thomas ^a,h   Eschbach, Claire ^a   Ehmer, Julia ^a   Chou, Wen Chuang ^c   Timme, Marc ^c,d,e   Fiala, André ^a,d,e   Gerber, Bertram ^a,b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h Visitron Systems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTANOL; PENTYL ACETATE;

ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MUTATION; ODORS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052582329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024300     Document Type: Article

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