Left–right asymmetries are common properties of nervous systems. Although lateralized sensory processing has been well studied, information is lacking about how asymmetries are represented at the level of neural coding. Using in vivo functional imaging, we identified a population-level left–right asymmetry in the honey bee's primary olfactory centre, the antennal lobe (AL). When both antennae were stimulated via a frontal odour source, the inter-odour distances between neural response patterns were higher in the right than in the left AL. Behavioural data correlated with the brain imaging results: bees with only their right antenna were better in discriminating a target odour in a cross-adaptation paradigm. We hypothesize that the differences in neural odour representations in the two brain sides serve to increase coding capacity by parallel processing.

Asymmetric neural coding revealed by in vivo calcium imaging in the honey bee brain / Rigos, E. i; Haase, A.; Rath, L.; Anfora, G.; Vallortigara, G.; Szyszka, Marc Paul. - In: PROCEEDINGS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. - ISSN 0962-8452. - 282:(2015), pp. 20142571-20142571. [10.1098/rspb.2014.2571]

Asymmetric neural coding revealed by in vivo calcium imaging in the honey bee brain

Haase, A.;Anfora, G.;Vallortigara, G.;Szyszka, Marc Paul
2015-01-01

Abstract

Left–right asymmetries are common properties of nervous systems. Although lateralized sensory processing has been well studied, information is lacking about how asymmetries are represented at the level of neural coding. Using in vivo functional imaging, we identified a population-level left–right asymmetry in the honey bee's primary olfactory centre, the antennal lobe (AL). When both antennae were stimulated via a frontal odour source, the inter-odour distances between neural response patterns were higher in the right than in the left AL. Behavioural data correlated with the brain imaging results: bees with only their right antenna were better in discriminating a target odour in a cross-adaptation paradigm. We hypothesize that the differences in neural odour representations in the two brain sides serve to increase coding capacity by parallel processing.
2015
Rigos, E. i; Haase, A.; Rath, L.; Anfora, G.; Vallortigara, G.; Szyszka, Marc Paul
Asymmetric neural coding revealed by in vivo calcium imaging in the honey bee brain / Rigos, E. i; Haase, A.; Rath, L.; Anfora, G.; Vallortigara, G.; Szyszka, Marc Paul. - In: PROCEEDINGS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. - ISSN 0962-8452. - 282:(2015), pp. 20142571-20142571. [10.1098/rspb.2014.2571]
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