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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2021

An Evolutionary Microcircuit Approach to the Neural Basis of High Dimensional Sensory Processing in Olfaction.

Gordon M Shepherd, Timothy B Rowe, Charles A Greer

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gordon M ShepherdDepartment of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Timothy B RoweDepartment of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Charles A GreerDepartment of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Yale University · USThe University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

SenseLab: Integration of Multidisciplinary Sensory DataR01DC009977 · NIDCD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HINES, MICHAEL L, MCDOUGAL, ROBERT A. · 2009 to 2018
$6.7M
Piriform cortex: sequential developmental eventsR01DC013791 · NIDCD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Charles A Greer · 2015 to 2026
$3.9M
Olfactory Bulb Local CircuitsR01DC016851 · NIDCD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GREER, CHARLES A · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
The Olfactory NerveR01DC012441 · NIDCD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GREER, CHARLES A · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009977NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012441NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013791NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC016851
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Odor stimuli consist of thousands of possible molecules, each molecule with many different properties, each property a dimension of the stimulus. Processing these high dimensional stimuli would appear to require many stages in the brain to reach odor perception, yet, in mammals, after the sensory receptors this is accomplished through only two regions, the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex. We take a first step toward a fundamental understanding by identifying the sequence of local operations carried out by microcircuits in the pathway. Parallel research provided strong evidence that processed odor information is spatial representations of odor molecules that constitute odor images in the olfactory bulb and odor objects in olfactory cortex. Paleontology provides a unique advantage with evolutionary insights providing evidence that the basic architecture of the olfactory pathway almost from the start ∼330 million years ago (mya) has included an overwhelming input from olfactory sensory neurons combined with a large olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex to process that input, driven by olfactory receptor gene duplications. We identify a sequence of over 20 microcircuits that are involved, and expand on results of research on several microcircuits that give the best insights thus far into the nature of the high dimensional processing.

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content addressable memoryevolutionlateral inhibitionmammalian paleontologymicrocircuitneuronal microcircuitsolfactory processingsensory dimensionality

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PMID33994949
PMCPMC8120314
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