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¹Sensory Circuits and Neurotechnology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom.

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High-frequency odor fluctuations provide detailed information for locating scent sources. This study quantifies spatial information in odor concentration correlations, suggesting olfactory systems can achieve high-resolution source localization.

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Area of Science:

Olfactory neuroscience
Biophysics
Computational fluid dynamics

Background:

Odor concentration time series from spatially separated sources contain information about source distance.
Olfactory systems, like those in mice and insects, can detect rapid odor fluctuations at high frequencies.

Purpose of the Study:

To quantify the spatial information about source separation present in the spectral components of odor concentration correlations.
To investigate if high-frequency acuity in olfactory systems supports odor source localization.

Main Methods:

Utilized computational fluid dynamics simulations of multisource plumes in 2D chaotic flow.
Generated temporally complex, covarying odor concentration fields.
Derived analytic expressions for Fisher information in spectral components of correlations about source separation.

Main Results:

High frequencies were more informative for source separation when sources were close relative to large flow eddies.
Observed a similar effect in simulations with different geometry.
Found that high-frequency acuity supports high-resolution spatial localization of odor sources.

Conclusions:

High-frequency components of odor concentration correlations are crucial for precise odor source localization.
The study provides a model for spectral components of correlations and an approach to quantify spatial information in odor time series.
Suggests that the high-frequency acuity of olfactory systems is a key factor in high-resolution odor source localization.