CG Galizia, R Menzel
Inst. Biologie - Neurobiologie, Fachbereich BioChemPharm, Freie Universität Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Abstract
Major advances have been made in the last two years in understanding how honeybees process olfactory input at the level of their first brain structure dealing with odors, the antennal lobe (the insect analogue to the mammalian olfactory bulb). It is now possible to map physiological responses to morphologically identified olfactory glomeruli, allowing for the creation of a functional atlas. Furthermore, measuring odor evoked activity patterns was combined with appetitive odor learning. The results show that both genetically determined components and learning-related plasticity shape olfactory processing in the antennal lobe.