1. Neural Circuits: Random Design of a Higher-Order Olfactory Projection
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Rainer W. Friedrich and Gilad A. Jacobson
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Olfactory system ,animal structures ,Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Biological neural network ,medicine ,Projection (set theory) ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,business.industry ,fungi ,food and beverages ,Pattern recognition ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Order (biology) ,Odor ,nervous system ,Mushroom bodies ,Antennal lobe ,Artificial intelligence ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,psychological phenomena and processes - Abstract
SummaryA recent study in Drosophila has found that the connectivity between the first olfactory processing center, the antennal lobe, and one of its targets, the mushroom body, is apparently random. This supports the idea that the mushroom body is designed for learning arbitrary odor features.
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