Temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.

The discrimination of complex sensory stimuli in a noisy environment is an immense computational task. Sensory systems often encode stimulus features in a spatiotemporal fashion through the complex firing patterns of individual neurons. To identify these temporal features, we have developed an analy...

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Autores principales: Alberto Capurro, Fabiano Baroni, Linda S Kuebler, Zsolt Kárpáti, Teun Dekker, Hong Lei, Bill S Hansson, Timothy C Pearce, Shannon B Olsson
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:971aad146f5247b5b198f119eb9f7d862021-11-18T08:37:21ZTemporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0084037https://doaj.org/article/971aad146f5247b5b198f119eb9f7d862014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24465391/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The discrimination of complex sensory stimuli in a noisy environment is an immense computational task. Sensory systems often encode stimulus features in a spatiotemporal fashion through the complex firing patterns of individual neurons. To identify these temporal features, we have developed an analysis that allows the comparison of statistically significant features of spike trains localized over multiple scales of time-frequency resolution. Our approach provides an original way to utilize the discrete wavelet transform to process instantaneous rate functions derived from spike trains, and select relevant wavelet coefficients through statistical analysis. Our method uncovered localized features within olfactory projection neuron (PN) responses in the moth antennal lobe coding for the presence of an odor mixture and the concentration of single component odorants, but not for compound identities. We found that odor mixtures evoked earlier responses in biphasic response type PNs compared to single components, which led to differences in the instantaneous firing rate functions with their signal power spread across multiple frequency bands (ranging from 0 to 45.71 Hz) during a time window immediately preceding behavioral response latencies observed in insects. Odor concentrations were coded in excited response type PNs both in low frequency band differences (2.86 to 5.71 Hz) during the stimulus and in the odor trace after stimulus offset in low (0 to 2.86 Hz) and high (22.86 to 45.71 Hz) frequency bands. These high frequency differences in both types of PNs could have particular relevance for recruiting cellular activity in higher brain centers such as mushroom body Kenyon cells. In contrast, neurons in the specialized pheromone-responsive area of the moth antennal lobe exhibited few stimulus-dependent differences in temporal response features. These results provide interesting insights on early insect olfactory processing and introduce a novel comparative approach for spike train analysis applicable to a variety of neuronal data sets.Alberto CapurroFabiano BaroniLinda S KueblerZsolt KárpátiTeun DekkerHong LeiBill S HanssonTimothy C PearceShannon B OlssonPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 1, p e84037 (2014)
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Alberto Capurro
Fabiano Baroni
Linda S Kuebler
Zsolt Kárpáti
Teun Dekker
Hong Lei
Bill S Hansson
Timothy C Pearce
Shannon B Olsson
Temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.
description The discrimination of complex sensory stimuli in a noisy environment is an immense computational task. Sensory systems often encode stimulus features in a spatiotemporal fashion through the complex firing patterns of individual neurons. To identify these temporal features, we have developed an analysis that allows the comparison of statistically significant features of spike trains localized over multiple scales of time-frequency resolution. Our approach provides an original way to utilize the discrete wavelet transform to process instantaneous rate functions derived from spike trains, and select relevant wavelet coefficients through statistical analysis. Our method uncovered localized features within olfactory projection neuron (PN) responses in the moth antennal lobe coding for the presence of an odor mixture and the concentration of single component odorants, but not for compound identities. We found that odor mixtures evoked earlier responses in biphasic response type PNs compared to single components, which led to differences in the instantaneous firing rate functions with their signal power spread across multiple frequency bands (ranging from 0 to 45.71 Hz) during a time window immediately preceding behavioral response latencies observed in insects. Odor concentrations were coded in excited response type PNs both in low frequency band differences (2.86 to 5.71 Hz) during the stimulus and in the odor trace after stimulus offset in low (0 to 2.86 Hz) and high (22.86 to 45.71 Hz) frequency bands. These high frequency differences in both types of PNs could have particular relevance for recruiting cellular activity in higher brain centers such as mushroom body Kenyon cells. In contrast, neurons in the specialized pheromone-responsive area of the moth antennal lobe exhibited few stimulus-dependent differences in temporal response features. These results provide interesting insights on early insect olfactory processing and introduce a novel comparative approach for spike train analysis applicable to a variety of neuronal data sets.
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author Alberto Capurro
Fabiano Baroni
Linda S Kuebler
Zsolt Kárpáti
Teun Dekker
Hong Lei
Bill S Hansson
Timothy C Pearce
Shannon B Olsson
author_facet Alberto Capurro
Fabiano Baroni
Linda S Kuebler
Zsolt Kárpáti
Teun Dekker
Hong Lei
Bill S Hansson
Timothy C Pearce
Shannon B Olsson
author_sort Alberto Capurro
title Temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.
title_short Temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.
title_full Temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.
title_fullStr Temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.
title_full_unstemmed Temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.
title_sort temporal features of spike trains in the moth antennal lobe revealed by a comparative time-frequency analysis.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2014
url https://doaj.org/article/971aad146f5247b5b198f119eb9f7d86
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