ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
How is the percept of a smell generated from the fractionated representation of odours at the periphery where olfactory receptor channels detect structural elements of odour molecules? While this problem seems akin to the detection of a “Gestalt”/object by the visual system using its contours, there is a fundamental difference between olfaction and vision due to the discontinuous, non-topographical nature of odour representation. Recently my group has discovered intriguing subcellular mechanisms of the neuronal microcircuits prevalent in the olfactory bulb that may enable flexible and energy-efficient non-topographical odour representation. These microcircuits connect distant olfactory…
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