Nature Communications (May 2017)

Engaging and disengaging recurrent inhibition coincides with sensing and unsensing of a sensory stimulus

  • Debajit Saha,
  • Wensheng Sun,
  • Chao Li,
  • Srinath Nizampatnam,
  • William Padovano,
  • Zhengdao Chen,
  • Alex Chen,
  • Ege Altan,
  • Ray Lo,
  • Dennis L. Barbour,
  • Baranidharan Raman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15413
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Sensory stimuli evoke temporally dynamic responses. Here the authors report that responses to odour onset and offset are orthogonally represented in the locust antennal lobe, differentially entrain oscillations, and propose a model in which they are necessary for initiation and termination of behaviour.