Séparation de patron d'activités neuronales; codage sensoriel; olfaction; inhibition
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Sensory environments force mammalian brain to adopt the best strategies to separate sensory objects for meaningful perception. The olfactory system is tuned to process complex inputs resulting from a large variety of odorant molecules. Odorants are known to recruit a combination of glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, further evoking complex firing patterns evolving in time in the population of bulbar output neurons, mitral/tufted (M/T) cells. Similar activity patterns evoked by related odorants may be separated over time, a mechanism called pattern decorrelation or separation. Although experimental evidences support slow pattern decorrelation in lower vertebrates such as fish, the existence of such mechanism and its behavioral relevance remain unexplored in mammals. Here we propose to investigate whether pattern decorrelation occurs in the olfactory bulb and if such separation is linked to discrimination behavior. We will use tetrode recordings in awake head-restrained mice, and odor discrimination behavior. We will test if ensemble decorrelation predicts the ability of the mouse to discriminate odorants. Finally, using channelrhodopsin stimulation, we will test if bulbar GABAergic neurons can enhance pattern decorrelation and further improve odor discrimination.