Publication Date:
2011-05-10
Description:
Sparse coding presents practical advantages for sensory representations and memory storage. In the insect olfactory system, the representation of general odors is dense in the antennal lobes but sparse in the mushroom bodies, only one synapse downstream. In locusts, this transformation relies on the oscillatory structure of antennal lobe output, feed-forward inhibitory circuits, intrinsic properties of mushroom body neurons, and connectivity between antennal lobe and mushroom bodies. Here we show the existence of a normalizing negative-feedback loop within the mushroom body to maintain sparse output over a wide range of input conditions. This loop consists of an identifiable "giant" nonspiking inhibitory interneuron with ubiquitous connectivity and graded release properties.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3242050/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3242050/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Papadopoulou, Maria -- Cassenaer, Stijn -- Nowotny, Thomas -- Laurent, Gilles -- BB/F005113/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 May 6;332(6030):721-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1201835.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology, Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21551062" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Action Potentials
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Animals
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Arthropod Antennae/cytology/*physiology
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Axons/physiology
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Dendrites/physiology
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Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials
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Feedback, Sensory
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Female
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Grasshoppers/cytology/*physiology
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Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials
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Interneurons/*physiology
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Male
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Mushroom Bodies/cytology/*physiology
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Neural Inhibition
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*Odors
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Olfactory Pathways/physiology
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gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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