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ArticleeNeuro2024

Bilateral Alignment of Receptive Fields in the Olfactory Cortex.

Julien Grimaud, William Dorrell, Siddharth Jayakumar, Cengiz Pehlevan, Venkatesh Murthy

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Article in eNeuro, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Julien GrimaudMolecules, Cells, and Organisms Graduate Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8123-1131
William DorrellCenter for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6748-3401
Siddharth JayakumarDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8637-9300
Cengiz PehlevanCenter for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9767-6063
Venkatesh MurthyDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 vnmurthy@fas.harvard.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2443-4252

Funding

Cortical feedback and olfactory processingR01DC016289 · NIDCD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MURTHY, VENKATESH N · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
Optogenetic studies of mouse olfactionR01DC011291 · NIDCD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MURTHY, VENKATESH N · 2011 to 2015
$1.7M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC011291NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC016289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Each olfactory cortical hemisphere receives ipsilateral odor information directly from the olfactory bulb and contralateral information indirectly from the other cortical hemisphere. Since neural projections to the olfactory cortex (OC) are disordered and nontopographic, spatial information cannot be used to align projections from the two sides like in the visual cortex. Therefore, how bilateral information is integrated in individual cortical neurons is unknown. We have found, in mice, that the odor responses of individual neurons to selective stimulation of each of the two nostrils are significantly correlated, such that odor identity decoding optimized with information arriving from one nostril transfers very well to the other side. Nevertheless, these aligned responses are asymmetric enough to allow decoding of stimulus laterality. Computational analysis shows that such matched odor tuning is incompatible with purely random connections but is explained readily by Hebbian plasticity structuring bilateral connectivity. Our data reveal that despite the distributed and fragmented sensory representation in the OC, odor information across the two hemispheres is highly coordinated.

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OdorantsOlfactory CortexAction PotentialsAnimalsFemaleFunctional LateralityMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLModels, NeurologicalNeuronsOlfactory PathwaysOlfactory PerceptionSmellcomputational modelcorrelated receptive fieldsHebbian plasticityinterhemispheric coordinationolfactory cortex

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PMID39433407
PMCPMC11540595

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