Odor Representations in Olfactory Cortex: Distributed Rate Coding and Decorrelated Population Activity

Neuron

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1087-1098

  Miura, Keiji ^a,b,c   Mainen, Zachary F ^d,e   Uchida, Naoshige ^a,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR PIRIFORM CORTEX; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EVOKED RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SNIFFING; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; SMELL;

EID: 84862703885     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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