TY - JOUR T1 - Illuminating Vertebrate Olfactory Processing JF - The Journal of Neuroscience JO - J. Neurosci. SP - 14102 LP - 14108a DO - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3328-12.2012 VL - 32 IS - 41 AU - Hartwig Spors AU - Dinu Florin Albeanu AU - Venkatesh N. Murthy AU - Dmitry Rinberg AU - Naoshige Uchida AU - Matt Wachowiak AU - Rainer W. Friedrich Y1 - 2012/10/10 UR - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/41/14102.abstract N2 - The olfactory system encodes information about molecules by spatiotemporal patterns of activity across distributed populations of neurons and extracts information from these patterns to control specific behaviors. Recent studies used in vivo recordings, optogenetics, and other methods to analyze the mechanisms by which odor information is encoded and processed in the olfactory system, the functional connectivity within and between olfactory brain areas, and the impact of spatiotemporal patterning of neuronal activity on higher-order neurons and behavioral outputs. The results give rise to a faceted picture of olfactory processing and provide insights into fundamental mechanisms underlying neuronal computations. This review focuses on some of this work presented in a Mini-Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in 2012. ER -