Odor concentration invariance by chemical ratio coding

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue AUG, 2008, Pages

  Uchida, Naoshige ^a,b   Mainen, Zachary F ^a  

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

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration invariance; Odor recognition; Olfaction; Ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890862534     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.06.003.2007     Document Type: Article

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