The geometry and role of sequential activity in olfactory processing
Jonathan V. Gill, Mursel Karadas, Shy Shoham, Dmitry Rinberg · COSYNE 2023
Animals depend on their senses for survival. Mice, who rely on olfaction to navigate the world, can rapidly identify odors within a single sniff across a wide range of concentrations. In the mouse olfactory bulb (OB), mitral and tufted cells (MTCs) respond to odors by changing both the rate and timing of spikes relative to inhalation, resulting in reliable, odor specific sequences that evolve over a single sniff. However, it remains unknown how sequential MTC activity is organized. Specifically, what defines the order in which MTCs fire, and what information is encoded in these sequences? To a
Fri, Mar 10, 2023