With less than a million neurons, the western honeybee Apis mellifera is capable of complex
olfactory behaviors and provides an ideal model for investigating the neurophysiology of the …

In most sensory modalities the underlying physical phenomena are well understood, and
stimulus properties can be precisely controlled. In olfaction, the situation is different. The …

Sensory systems encode both the static quality of a stimulus (eg, color or shape) and its
kinetics (eg, speed and direction). The limits with which stimulus kinetics can be resolved …

This paper introduces both a hardware and a software system designed to allow low-cost
electronic monitoring of social insects using RFID tags. Data formats for individual insect …

Animals encounter fine-scale temporal patterns of odorant mixtures that contain information
about the distance and number of odorant sources. To study the role of such temporal cues …

In natural environments, odors are typically mixtures of several different chemical
compounds. However, the implications of mixtures for odor processing have not been fully …

Odorants of behaviorally relevant objects (eg, food sources) intermingle with those from
other sources. Therefore to determine whether an odor source is good or bad—without …

In many application domains, conventional e-noses are frequently outperformed in both
speed and accuracy by their biological counterparts. Exploring potential bio-inspired …

The honeybee olfactory system is a well-established model for understanding functional
mechanisms of learning and memory. Olfactory stimuli are first processed in the antennal …

The general architecture of the olfactory system is highly conserved from insects to humans,
but neuroanatomical and physiological differences can be observed across species. The …