N. Gueorguieva and I. Valova (USA)
Olfactory bulb, synapse, excitatory inputs, inhibitory inputs, receptor
The understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of ol factory bulb (OB) is essential to the modeling of brain and nervous system. We analyze the conditions governing neural oscillations and the nature of odor-receptor interac tions and propose a biologically plausible four-layer model of the OB with three nonlinearities. We view the layered architecture of the bulb as a composition of different processing stages performing different computational tasks. The model contains sen sory, glomerular, external plexiform and granule layers with excitatory and inhibitory neurons and dendroden dritic interactions. It has different number of mitral and granule cells which improves the cognitive ability of the model. In a noisy background our model functions as an associative memory, although it operates in an oscillatory mode. We derive the requirements under which a state is stable and test whether a given equilibrium state is stable against noise. The presented model demonstrates its capa bility to discriminate odors by using nonlinear den drodendritic interactions between neurons.
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