NMDA spikes mediate amplification of odor pathway information in the piriform cortex
Amit Kumar, Oded Schiff, Edi Barkai, Bartlett W. Mel, Alon Poleg-Polsky, Jackie Schiller
This study shows that NMDA spikes in piriform cortex pyramidal neurons amplify and selectively combine olfactory bulb inputs, explaining nonlinear odor code transformation.
eLife · Dec 21, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience