ePoster · Computational Neuroscience
Role of local Kenyon cell – Kenyon Cell interactions in the γ lobe of Drosophila melanogaster for specificity in olfactory learning
Ibrahim Tunc, Martin Nawrot, Moshe Parnas · Bernstein Conference 2024
For the olfactory associative learning to be specific, stimulus representation in the Kenyon cell (KC) population should be accurate with minimal activity overlap between different stimuli, which is achieved by the sparse and highly odor-specific KC response patterns. While a multitude of cellular and network mechanisms substantially increase the KC population sparsity, the proportion of KCs responding unreliably to a given odor over multiple trials is roughly three times larger than that of reliable responders [1, 3], leading to substantial response correlations between different odors. Consi