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Chemical Senses 21: 19-27,
© 1996

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A Model for Pheromone Discrimination in the Insect Antennal Lobe: Investigation of the Role of Neuronal Response Pattern Complexity

Christiane Linster1,2 and Gérard Dreyfus1

1Laboratoire d'Électronique, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles 10, Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris 2Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Comparée des Invertébrés, INRA/CNRS (URA 1190) 91140 Bures sur Yvette, France

Correspondence to be sent to: Christiane Linster, Department of Psychology (Rm 1446), Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Based on anatomical and physiological data pertaining to several moth species and the cockroach, we propose a neural model for pheromone discrimination in the insect antennal lobe. The model exploits the variety of neuronal response patterns observed in the macroglomerulus, and predicts how these complex patterns of excitation and inhibition can participate in the discrimination of the species-specific pheromone blend. The model also allows us to investigate the relationship between the distribution of observed response patterns and the neural organization from which these patterns emerge. Chem. Senses 21: 19–27, 1996.


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