A rose by any other code.
In this issue of Neuron, Mazor and Laurent demonstrate that the internal representation of an odor in the antennal lobe of locusts is broadly distributed across the population of projection neurons and is formatted in a manner that requires deciphering of response transients rather than steady-state activity patterns.
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John P
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Center for Computational Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717.
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