Pattern mining in spontaneous background activity from the honeybee antennal lobe.

Antennal Lobe of the Honeybee

Rapid Odor Processing in the Honeybee Antennal Lobe Network

In their natural environment, many insects need to identify and evaluate behaviorally relevant odorants on a rich and dynamic olfactory background. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that bees recognize learned odors within <200 ms, indicating a rapid processing of olfactory input in the sensory pathway. We studied the role of the honeybee antennal lobe network in constructing a fast and reli...

Neural correlates of odor learning in the honeybee antennal lobe.

Extracellular spiking activity and local field potentials (LFP) were recorded via tetrodes at the output of the antennal lobe (AL) in the honeybee brain during olfactory conditioning. Odors induce reliable rate responses that consist of either phasic-tonic responses, or complex responses with odor-specific profiles. In addition, odors evoke consistent responses of LFP oscillations in the 50-Hz ...

Inhibitory connections in the honeybee antennal lobe are spatially patchy.

The olfactory system is a classical model for studying sensory processing. The first olfactory brain center [the olfactory bulb of vertebrates and the antennal lobe (AL) of insects] contains spherical neuropiles called glomeruli. Each glomerulus receives the information from one olfactory receptor type. Interglomerular computation is accomplished by lateral connectivity via interneurons. Howeve...

Neural representation of olfactory mixtures in the honeybee antennal lobe.

Natural olfactory stimuli occur as mixtures of many single odors. We studied whether the representation of a mixture in the brain retains single-odor information and how much mixture-specific information it includes. To understand mixture representation in the honeybee brain, we used in vivo calcium imaging at the level of the antennal lobe, and systematically measured odor-evoked activity in 2...