title: A model for pheromone discrimination in the insect antennal lobe: investigation of the role of neuronal response pattern complexity.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Electronique, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Linster
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dreyfus
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009036:Moths / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net; D010675:Pheromones; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D010675:Pheromones