Title
How neurons may compute: the case of insect sexual pheromone discrim-ination
Abstract
Recognition of pheromone scent by male insects probably depends on analyzing the blend's composition in terms of relative concentrations of major and minor molecular components. Based on anatomical, physiological and behavioral data concerning certain moth species and the cockroach, we propose a simple, biologically plausible neural circuit which is able to perform this task reliably. The model employs oscillations as a detecting device. This principle is easily generalized to other systems. As a computational device, ratio detection may find applications in a variety of biological situations, e.g. in the olfactory system of all animals.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00961735
Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Keywords
Field
DocType
Relative Concentration,Sexual Pheromone,Behavioral Data,Neural Circuit,Olfactory System
Cockroach,Olfactory system,Neuroscience,Communication,Insect,Behavioral data,Pheromone,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
3
0929-5313
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
1.10
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christiane Linster142.55
Michel Kerszberg242.55
Claudine Masson3147.84