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Recent studies in honeybees have demonstrated that, when odor-evoked action potentials in antennal lobe neurons are pharmacologically desynchronized, the bees are impaired in their ability to discriminate chemically similar odor stimuli. Using a reduced computational model of the honeybee antennal lobe, we show how changes in spike-synchronization properties alone, independent of changes in overall spike-discharge rate or differences in activity levels among responsive neurons, can produce changes in associative learning similar to those observed experimentally.
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Linster, C., Cleland, T.A. How Spike Synchronization Among Olfactory Neurons Can Contribute to Sensory Discrimination. J Comput Neurosci 10, 187–193 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011221131212
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