Computational Neuroscience Initiative200 Goddard Labs, 3710 Hamilton Walk
Kevin Bolding
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Single-trial neural population dynamics during odor learning
Animals rapidly adjust their behavior as odors become familiar, but how this learning unfolds in neural population activity across trials remains unclear. In this talk, I will present unpublished work examining single-trial population responses during odor experience in awake mice, with a focus on how odor sampling behavior and neural activity evolve together over repeated presentations. Using large-scale recordings in olfactory bulb and piriform cortex, I will compare trial-by-trial changes in population response structure and discuss what these dynamics may reveal about odor identity coding during learning.
A pizza lunch will be served.