Olfactory receptor neuron coding in the turbulent realm
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Olfactory coding in the turbulent realm
Long-distance olfactory search behaviors depend on odor detection dynamics. Due to turbulence, olfactory signals travel as bursts of variable concentration and spacing and are characterized by long-tail distributions of odor/no-odor events, challenging the computing capacities of olfactory systems. How animals encode complex olfactory scenes to track the plume far from the source remains unclea...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-2202
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-p315