Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

Sensory systems both in the living and in machines have to be optimized with respect to their environmental conditions. The olfactory system of moths is a particularly well-defined example in which rapid variations of odor content in turbulent plumes require fast, concentration-invariant neural representations. Using computational modeling, we show that cellular and network mechanisms in the moth antennal lobe contribute to coding efficiency by implementing a dual latency code for both pheromone identity and intensity. This result was recently published in PNAS [6] and is available at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/21/1112367108.abstract .