{"id":53,"date":"2015-09-14T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T14:52:07","slug":"aims-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/14\/aims-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beeonrape.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beeonrape.jpg\" alt=\"beeonrape\" width=\"1500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beeonrape.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beeonrape-300x80.jpg 300w, http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beeonrape-1024x273.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our overarching aim is to form a better understanding of how small and fast fluctuations in relative concentrations of odor mixtures are used by animals to reliably identify odor sources will help us identify common principles of how animals\u2019 brains represent and process their environment.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, we will use behavioral experiments in honey bees to identify naturally evolved strategies of odor-background segregation.\u00a0At the same time, physiological recordings will inform us about neuronal processing and the receptor neurons\u2019 and the brain\u2019s different roles.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, we will use computational models to formulate mechanistic explanations of the process of odor-background segregation and generate predictions to test in experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, to overcome the limitations of in silico simulations, we will finally transfer successful models to the embodied context of odor tracking robots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/15\/introduction\/\">Project Introduction<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/14\/team\/\">Project Team<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/14\/research-plan\/\">Research Plan<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/14\/funding\/\">Funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our overarching aim is to form a better understanding of how small and fast fluctuations in relative concentrations of odor mixtures are used by animals to reliably identify odor sources will help us identify common principles of how animals\u2019 brains represent and process their environment. To this end, we will use behavioral experiments in honey &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/14\/aims-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odor-objects.inf.sussex.ac.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}