User talk:LaSerr

Overall a very nice contribution!

I have now put all of your contribution onto the page Sensory_Systems/Computer_Models/Simulations_Olfactory_System and added the link and an introduction to Sensory_Systems/Computer_Models

Please feel free to adjust the introduction there to your liking. In addition, I have the following comments:

General comments

 * I think you should first give an introduction, for example my suggestion below. And/or you could move your last paragraph to the top, and outline the two points you are dealing with:
 * 1) that the information from the hundreds of smell receptors are interpreted using "hierarchical clusters". And
 * 2) a way how scale invariance (a rose always smells like a rose, regardless of whether the smell is weak or strong) could be implemented at a neural level. (Your section "The Problem of Scale-Invariant Recognition" may be better as an introductory section under the "Hopfield" heading).


 * Use more telling headings: "Ambros-Ingerson et al., 1990" does not tell the reader anything! It could for example be replaced with "Hierarchical clustering of smells".
 * Dare to be more "entertaining": the the reader for example that "Hopfield" is one of the most eminent researchers in the field, and pretty much started computational neural nets.

Specific comments

 * As an introduction to the computational side, we could use something like:

Our understanding of the neural processes underlying hearing, seeing, and orientation sensing are remarkably advanced. On the gadget side, we have corresponding vision, sound, and movement sensors available for robotics applications. In contrast, smelling and tasting seem to be remarkably more complex processes. This is mirrored on the physiological sensor side: we have one to two types of transducing cells for hearing and for movement sensing (regular and irregular hair-cells), and about four types of light transducing cells in the retina (the three types of cones for color vision, and the rods for light/dark sensation). But we have hundreds of taste- and smell- receptors in our nose and on our tongue. Correspondingly, artificial noses and tongues do exist, but are not very advanced yet. In this section, we describe some first steps in our computational understanding of the olfactory system: smelling.


 * "Hopfield, 1995" does not mean anything as a title. Use "Scale invariance", or "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" (which is a famous quote by Gertrude Stein).
 * Don't use "Fig. 1", "Fig. 2", "Fig. 3": if anybody inserts an additional figure above, the numbering would be off. Please eliminate the numbering.
 * Tell the reader what "mitral cells" are.
 * In "Fig. 2" it is not quite clear that you mean with the "Time Advance". Also, it is not mentioned in the figure legend.
 * I don't see why/where the refractory period has any effect, at the level at which you describe the model here. Please either clarify more, or eliminate that piece of information.
 * In Fig. 3 the text is very unsharp! Please update the figure.