Thursday, February 24, 2011
\nThomas 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.
\nDuration: 41 minutes
\nDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)
\nCarlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA)
\nSalma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nTodd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nCharles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
\nacknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.