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Non-linear blend coding in the moth antennal lobe emerges from random glomerular networks.

This invited contribution to a special issue on biological approaches to chemical sensing focuses on the question of where in the olfactory pathway complex nonlinear interactions occur between blend components. Here we use a computational model of the first stage of olfactory processing in insects, the antennal lobe, and compare to neuroscience data to demonstrate that these interactions can plausibly result from dynamical interactions at this stage of olfactory processing. As such it has important implications in the search for complex nonlinear blend encoding in the olfactory pathway and so is likely to be important in future experimental design.