Episode 63 -- Thomas Cleland, PhD

Published: Feb. 24, 2011, 4:04 p.m.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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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.

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Duration: 41 minutes

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Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

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Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

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Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

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Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

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Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

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acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.