Search Results - "CHRISTENSEN, Thomas A"

Characterization and Coding of Behaviorally Significant Odor Mixtures by Riffell, Jeffrey A., Lei, Hong, Christensen, Thomas A., Hildebrand, John G.

“…For animals to execute odor-driven behaviors, the olfactory system must process complex odor signals and maintain stimulus identity in the face of constantly…”
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Phylogeny of a serotonin-immunoreactive neuron in the primary olfactory center of the insect brain by Dacks, Andrew M., Christensen, Thomas A., Hildebrand, John G.

“…Serotonin (5‐hydroxytryptamine; 5HT) functions in insects as a neurotransmitter, neuromodulator, and neurohormone. In the sphinx moth Manduca sexta, each of…”
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Local inhibition modulates odor-evoked synchronization of glomerulus-specific output neurons by Christensen, Thomas A, Lei, Hong, Hildebrand, John G

“…At the first stage of olfactory processing in the brain, synchronous firing across glomeruli may help to temporally bind multiple and spatially distributed…”
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Learning Modulates the Ensemble Representations for Odors in Primary Olfactory Networks by Daly, Kevin C., Christensen, Thomas A., Lei, Hong, Smith, Brian H., Hildebrand, John G., Berenbaum, May R.

“…Recent evidence suggests that odor-driven responses in the insect antennal lobe (AL) can be modified by associative and nonassociative processes, as has been…”
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Neural substrates of attentive listening assessed with a novel auditory Stroop task by Christensen, Thomas A, Lockwood, Julie L, Almryde, Kyle R, Plante, Elena

“…A common explanation for the interference effect in the classic visual Stroop test is that reading a word (the more automatic semantic response) must be…”
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Enantioselectivity of Projection Neurons Innervating Identified Olfactory Glomeruli by Reisenman, Carolina E, Christensen, Thomas A, Francke, Wittko, Hildebrand, John G

“…Projection neurons (PNs) with arborizations in the sexually dimorphic "lateral large female glomerulus" (latLFG) in the antennal lobe (AL) of the moth Manduca…”
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Chemosensory Selectivity of Output Neurons Innervating an Identified, Sexually Isomorphic Olfactory Glomerulus by Reisenman, Carolina E, Christensen, Thomas A, Hildebrand, John G

“…The antennal lobe (AL) of insects, like the olfactory bulb of vertebrates, is characterized by discrete modules of synaptic neuropil called glomeruli. In some…”
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Inhibition of nitric oxide and soluble guanylyl cyclase signaling affects olfactory neuron activity in the moth, Manduca sexta by Wilson, Caroline H, Christensen, Thomas A, Nighorn, Alan J

“…Nitric oxide is emerging as an important modulator of many physiological processes including olfaction, yet the function of this gas in the processing of…”
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The cloning of one putative octopamine receptor and two putative serotonin receptors from the tobacco hawkmoth, Manduca sexta by Dacks, Andrew M., Dacks, Joel B., Christensen, Thomas A., Nighorn, Alan J.

“…Serotonin and octopamine (OA) are biogenic amines that are active throughout the nervous systems of insects, affecting sensory processing, information coding…”
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Coordination of Central Odor Representations through Transient, Non-Oscillatory Synchronization of Glomerular Output Neurons by Christensen, Thomas A., Lei, Hong, Hildebrand, John G.

“…At the first stage of processing in the olfactory pathway, the patterns of glomerular activity evoked by different scents are both temporally and spatially…”
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Multitasking in the Olfactory System: Context-Dependent Responses to Odors Reveal Dual GABA-Regulated Coding Mechanisms in Single Olfactory Projection Neurons by Christensen, Thomas A, Waldrop, Brian R, Hildebrand, John G

“…Studies of olfaction have focused mainly on neural processing of information about the chemistry of odors, but olfactory stimuli have other properties that…”
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Response Characteristics of an Identified, Sexually Dimorphic Olfactory Glomerulus by King, Jane Roche, Christensen, Thomas A, Hildebrand, John G

“…Partitioning of synaptic neuropil into glomeruli is a common feature of primary olfactory centers in most animal species. The functional significance of…”
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Modulating the Focus of Attention for Spoken Words at Encoding Affects Frontoparietal Activation for Incidental Verbal Memory by Christensen, Thomas A., Almryde, Kyle R., Fidler, Lesley J., Lockwood, Julie L., Antonucci, Sharon M., Plante, Elena

“…Attention is crucial for encoding information into memory, and current dual-process models seek to explain the roles of attention in both recollection memory…”
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Spatial and Temporal Organization of Ensemble Representations for Different Odor Classes in the Moth Antennal Lobe by Lei, Hong, Christensen, Thomas A, Hildebrand, John G

“…In the insect antennal lobe, odor discrimination depends on the ability of the brain to read neural activity patterns across arrays of uniquely identifiable…”
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Odour-plume dynamics influence the brain's olfactory code by Vickers, Neil J, Baker, Thomas C, Christensen, Thomas A, Hildebrand, John G

“…The neural computations used to represent olfactory information in the brain have long been investigated. Recent studies in the insect antennal lobe suggest…”
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Cortical and subcortical contributions to the attentive processing of speech by Christensen, Thomas A, Antonucci, Sharon M, Lockwood, Julie L, Kittleson, Megan, Plante, Elena

“…The neuroanatomical correlates of attentive listening were investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging and an attention task in which listeners…”
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Pheromonal and host-odor processing in the insect antennal lobe: how different? by Christensen, Thomas A, Hildebrand, John G

“…In the olfactory bulb of vertebrates and the antennal lobe of insects, precise connections between sensory receptor cells and olfactory glomeruli form the…”
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Octopamine-immunoreactive neurons in the brain and subesophageal ganglion of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta by Dacks, Andrew M., Christensen, Thomas A., Agricola, Hans-J., Wollweber, Leo, Hildebrand, John G.

“…Octopamine is a neuroactive monoamine that functions as a neurohormone, a neuromodulator, and a neurotransmitter in many invertebrate nervous systems, but…”
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Multi-unit recordings reveal context-dependent modulation of synchrony in odor-specific neural ensembles by Christensen, Thomas A, Pawlowski, Vincent M, Lei, Hong, Hildebrand, John G

“…We used neural ensemble recording to examine odor-evoked ensemble patterns in the moth antennal (olfactory) lobe. Different odors are thought to evoke unique…”
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Investigation of Hydronium Diffusion in Poly(vinyl alcohol) Hydrogels: A Critical First Step to Describe Acid Transport for Encapsulated Bioremediation by Silsby, Carson J., Counts, Jonathan R., Christensen, Thomas A., Roll, Mark F., Waynant, Kristopher V., Moberly, James G.

“…Bioremediation of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon-contaminated aquifers can be hindered by high contaminant concentrations and acids generated during…”
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