商品簡介
Computational neuroscientists have turned to modelling olfactory structures because these are likely to have the same functional properties as popular network designs for perception and memory. This book provides a survey of 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 have been developed to date. Contributions cover empirical investigations of the neurobiology of the olfactory systems (anatomy, physiology, synaptic plasticity, behavioural physiology) as well as the application of computer models to understanding these systems.
Fundamental issues in olfactory processing by the nervous systems such as experimental strategies in the study of olfaction, stages of odour processing, and critical questions in sensory coding are considered across empircal/applied boundaries and throughout the contributions. Contributors: I. Fundamental anatomy, physiology, and plasticity of the olfactory system: Gordon M.
Shepherd; John S. Kauer, S. R.
Neff, Kathryn A. Hamilton and Angel R. Cinelli; Kevin L.
Ketchum, Lewis B. Haberly; Joseph L. Price, S.
Thomas Carmichael, Ken M. Carnes, Marie-Christine Clugnet, Masaru Kuroda and James P. Ray; Michael Leon, Donald A.
Wilson and Kathleen M. Guthrie; Gary Lynch and Richard Granger; Howard Eichbaum, Tim Otto, Cynthia Wible and Jean Piper. II.
Developments in computational models of the olfactory system: DeLiang Wang, Joachim Buhmann and Christoph von der Marlsburg; Walter Freeman; Richard Granger, Ursula Staubi, Jose Ambrose-Ingersoll and Gary Lynch; James M. Bower; Dan Hammerstrom and Eric Means.
