title: Parallel Olfactory Processing in the Honey Bee Brain: Odor Learning and Generalization under Selective Lesion of a Projection Neuron Tract.
abstract: The function of parallel neural processing is a fundamental problem in Neuroscience, as it is found across sensory modalities and evolutionary lineages, from insects to humans. Recently, parallel processing has attracted increased attention in the olfactory domain, with the demonstration in both insects and mammals that different populations of second-order neurons encode and/or process odorant information differently. Among insects, Hymenoptera present a striking olfactory system with a clear neural dichotomy from the periphery to higher-order centers, based on two main tracts of second-order (projection) neurons: the medial and lateral antennal lobe tracts (m-ALT and l-ALT). To unravel the functional role of these two pathways, we combined specific lesions of the m-ALT tract with behavioral experiments, using the classical conditioning of the proboscis extension response (PER conditioning). Lesioned and intact bees had to learn to associate an odorant (1-nonanol) with sucrose. Then the bees were subjected to a generalization procedure with a range of odorants differing in terms of their carbon chain length or functional group. We show that m-ALT lesion strongly affects acquisition of an odor-sucrose association. However, lesioned bees that still learned the association showed a normal gradient of decreasing generalization responses to increasingly dissimilar odorants. Generalization responses could be predicted to some extent by in vivo calcium imaging recordings of l-ALT neurons. The m-ALT pathway therefore seems necessary for normal classical olfactory conditioning performance.
authors.affiliation: Evolution, Genomes, Behavior and Ecology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Univ Paris-Sud, IRD, Université Paris-SaclayGif-sur-Yvette, France; Research Center on Animal Cognition, Université Toulouse III - Paul SabatierToulouse, France; Research Center on Animal Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueToulouse, France.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Carcaud
authors.affiliation: Research Center on Animal Cognition, Université Toulouse III - Paul SabatierToulouse, France; Research Center on Animal Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueToulouse, France.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giurfa
authors.affiliation: Evolution, Genomes, Behavior and Ecology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Univ Paris-Sud, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
authors.forename: Jean Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sandoz
keywords: insect; olfaction; olfactory conditioning; parallel processing; projection neurons; specific lesion
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