Olfaction: A Model System for Computational Neuroscience

by Howard Eichenbaum

Book Overview

Computational neuroscientists have recently turned to modeling olfactory structures because these are likely to have the same functional properties as currently popular network designs for perception and memory. This book provides a useful survey of current work on olfactory system circuitry, including connections of this system to brain structures involved in cognition and memory, and describes the computational models of olfactory processing that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262041243
• ISBN13: 9780262041249
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Smell provides the insight into mechanics of cortex

It is shown how the synaptic connections of the piriform cortex are analogous to the input and recurrent connections of classical autoassociative memory. Processing units are the pyramidal cells in piriform cortical layers II and III. The dendrites of these pyramidal cells extend into piriform layer I. Piriform layer Ia (lateral olfactory tract, LOT, input from the olfactory bulb) synapsing with the pyramidal dendrites, represent the input connections to the autoassociative memory. Recurrent excitatory axons from the pyramidal cells projecting to piriform layer Ib and synapsing with the dendrites of multiple pyramidal cells, represents the recurrent connections of the autoassociative memory.