Speed and accuracy of olfactory discrimination in the rat

By Naoshige Uchida, Zachary F. Mainen. Nature Neuroscience, 2003

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Sensory Systems

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Imaging a Population Code for Odor Identity in the Drosophila Mushroom Body (2013, methodology): “We investigated this using two-component odor blends (Uchida and Mainen, 2003; Abraham et al., 2004; Fernandez et al., 2009; Miura et al., 2012) to construct a psychometric function describing odor discrimination accuracy.”
New vistas for α-frequency band oscillations (2007, neutral): “Similarly, rats sample and discriminate odors at a rate of 8 Hz [ 70 ] and use active whisking at 7‐14 Hz for tactile perception [34].”
Recognition systems and biological organization: The perception component of social recognition (2004, background): “Uchida and Mainen (2003) showed that psychophysical discrimination of simple odors by trained rats occurs in about 200 ms, regardless of the similarity of the odor stimuli and thus the difficulty of the task.”
Risk vs. reward: how predators and prey respond to aging olfactory cues (2013, background): “The rodent olfactory system is sufficiently sensitive that each sniff is thought to provide them with a snapshot of the olfactory landscape, full of information that allows them to make foraging or predator-avoidance decisions of maximum accuracy (Uchida and Mainen 2003).”
The speed-accuracy tradeoff: history, physiology, methodology, and behavior (2014, background): “Using olfactory discrimination, one study has shown a lack of any relationship between accuracy rate and decision time, even when odor mixtures are highly similar (Uchida and Mainen, 2003; see also Zariwala et al., 2013; but see Abraham et al., 2004).”
Activity-dependent gating of lateral inhibition in the mouse olfactory bulb (2008, background): “We next wanted to determine how mitral cell spike-timing was altered by lateral inhibition, given that results indicate the importance of spike timing and inhibition in olfactory processing in the bul”
Dopamine reward prediction errors reflect hidden state inference across time (2017, neutral): “Odors were delivered to animals with a custom-made olfactometer 38 .”
Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making. (2009, background): “Although SATs are not inevitable in sensory discrimination and decision making [25,62, 63 ], they are likely to affect more behavioural processes and sensory modalities than those described here.”
Neuron-type specific signals for reward and punishment in the ventral tegmental area (2012, neutral): “Odours were delivered with a custom-made olfactomete”
Recombinase-driver rat lines: tools, techniques, and optogenetic application to dopamine-mediated reinforcement (2011, positive): “This technological limitation is particularly important to address given that the substantial and flexible behavioral repertoire of ratsmakes these animals the preferred rodent model in many fields of neuroscience experimentation, and a wide variety of behavioral tasks have been optimized for this s”
Odor representations in olfactory cortex: distributed rate coding and decorrelated population activity (2012, positive): “Thus, as previously reported (Uchida and Mainen, 2003), a single sniff was sufficient for maximal performance by rats in this odor mixture categorization task.”