Mixture Processing and Odor-Object Segregation in Insects

Szyszka, Paul; Stierle, Jacob S.

Mixture Processing and Odor-Object Segregation in Insects

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2014

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Szyszka, Paul

Stierle, Jacob S.

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Odor Memory and Perception. - Elsevier, 2014. - (Progress in Brain Research ; 208). - pp. 63-85. - ISBN 978-0-444-63350-7

Abstract

When enjoying the scent of grinded coffee or cut grass, most of us are unaware that these scents consist of up to hundreds of volatile substances. We perceive these odorant mixtures as a unitary scent rather than a combination of multiple odorants. The olfactory system processes odor mixtures into meaningful odor objects to provide animals with information that is relevant in everyday tasks, such as habitat localization, foraging, social communication, reproduction, and orientation. For example, odor objects can be a particular flower species on which a bee feeds or the receptive female moth which attracts males by its specific pheromone blend. Using odor mixtures as cues for odor-driven behavior rather than single odorants allows unambiguous identification of a potentially infinite number of odor objects. When multiple odor objects are present at the same time, they form a temporally complex mixture. In order to segregate this mixture into its meaningful constituents, animals must have evolved odor-object segregation mechanisms which are robust against the interference by background odors. In this review, we describe how insects use information of the olfactory environment to either bind odorants into unitary percepts or to segregate them from each other.

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SZYSZKA, Paul, Jacob S. STIERLE, 2014. Mixture Processing and Odor-Object Segregation in Insects. In: Odor Memory and Perception. Elsevier, pp. 63-85. ISBN 978-0-444-63350-7. Available under: doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63350-7.00003-6

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@incollection{Szyszka2014Mixtu-28366,
  year={2014},
  doi={10.1016/B978-0-444-63350-7.00003-6},
  title={Mixture Processing and Odor-Object Segregation in Insects},
  number={208},
  isbn={978-0-444-63350-7},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  series={Progress in Brain Research},
  booktitle={Odor Memory and Perception},
  pages={63--85},
  author={Szyszka, Paul and Stierle, Jacob S.}
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