title: Odor representations in the olfactory bulb evolve after the first breath and persist as an odor afterimage.
abstract: Rodents can discriminate odors in one breath, and mammalian olfaction research has thus focused on the first breath. However, sensory representations dynamically change during and after stimuli. To investigate these dynamics, we recorded spike trains from the olfactory bulb of awake, head-fixed mice and found that some mitral cells' odor representations changed following the first breath and others continued after odor cessation. Population analysis revealed that these postodor responses contained odor- and concentration-specific information--an odor afterimage. Using calcium imaging, we found that most olfactory glomerular activity was restricted to the odor presentation, implying that the afterimage is not primarily peripheral. The odor afterimage was not dependent on odorant physicochemical properties. To artificially induce aftereffects, we photostimulated mitral cells using channelrhodopsin and recorded centrally maintained persistent activity. The strength and persistence of the afterimage was dependent on the duration of both artificial and natural stimulation. In summary, we show that the odor representation evolves after the first breath and that there is a centrally maintained odor afterimage, similar to other sensory systems. These dynamics may help identify novel odorants in complex environments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Michael Andrew
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Patterson
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lagier
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carleton
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009812:Odorants; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000502:physiology*; D012119:Respiration
keywords: multielectrode recording; network dynamics; optogenetics
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