Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thomas Cleland (Cornell University) discusses the idea of olfactory receptive fields, and the problems associated with compressing the high-dimensional parameters of odor space into two-dimensional brain space. Analogies to the retina are considered.
Duration: 41 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
