An information theoretic model of information processing in the Drosophila olfactory system: The role of inhibitory neurons for system efficiency

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Faghihi, Faramarz ^a   Kolodziejski, Christoph ^a   Fiala, André ^b   Wörgötter, Florentin ^a   Tetzlaff, Christian ^a  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Information theory; Inhibitory neurons; Mutual information; Odor concentration; System efficiency

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA; INHIBITORY NEURONS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; ODOR CONCENTRATIONS; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY;

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY; NEURONS; STEREOPHONIC BROADCASTING;

EFFICIENCY;

ANTENNAL LOBE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KENYON CELL; MUSHROOM BODY; MUTUAL INFORMATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY PROJECTION NEURON; OLFACTORY SYSTEM;

EID: 84891542882     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00183     Document Type: Article

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