Impaired odour discrimination on desynchronization of odour-encoding neural assemblies

By Mark Stopfer, S. Bhagavan, B. Smith, Gilles Laurent. 1997

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Re-evaluating circuit mechanisms underlying pattern separation (2019, neutral): “Pharmacological block of oscillations (but not odour selectivity) in the projection neurons of honey bees impaired discrimination of molecularly similar odours, but did not affect the performance for dissimilar odourants (Stopfer et al., 1997).”
Rhythms of the brain (2006, background): “Before the landmark paper of Watts and Strogatz (1998) appeared, we reported on the “most peculiar anatomical features,” as a reviewer of the manuscript put it, of a newly discovered interneuron type in the hippocampus (Sík et al.”
Odor Discrimination in Drosophila: From Neural Population Codes to Behavior (2013, background): “, 2008), or binding neurons representing different stimulus features in synchrony (Gray et al., 1989; Laurent and Davidowitz, 1994; Stopfer et al., 1997).”
Synchronous firing and its influence on the brain's electromagnetic field: Evidence for an electromagnetic field theory of consciousness (2002, background): “Disruption of synchronous firing by treatment with picrotoxin has been shown to reduce the ability of insects to discriminate between similar scents (Stopfer et al., 1997), indicating that, at least in these animals, synchrony is not just an epiphenomenon, but plays a role in information processing.”
Gamma-band synchronization in the neocortex: novel analysis methods and their application to sensory and motivational systems (2013, background): “In rats, gammaband synchronization has also been found in several relay stations committed to odor processing (Eeckman & Freeman, 1990; Kay, 2003) and seems to be especially important for fine odor discrimination of chemically similar odorants (Stopfer et al., 1997; Beshel et al., 2007).”
The neural basis of temporal processing. (2004, methodology): “We use the former term to refer to the processing of stimuli defined by which sensory neurons are activated.”
Synaptic and cellular properties of the feed-forward inhibitory circuit within the input layer of the cerebellar cortex (2008, background): “Precise AP timing is crucial for neural codes that represent physical variables as spike times relative to oscillating reference signals (Stopfer et al., 1997; Harris et al., 2002).”