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Neuromorphic olfaction is an emergent field of research which aims at unraveling computational principles of biological olfactory systems and translating them into algorithms and devices. The resulting technology has high potential for a wide range of practical applications (detection of chemical species, diagnosis, crime prevention and security, etc.) as well as a tool for basic research to verify hypotheses about the sense of smell in biological systems. Neuromorphic olfactory systems are composed of a sensing part which provides selective responses to particular chemical as input to a biologically inspired computational stage.
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Most animals rely on smell as sensory modality for survival and reproduction: it allows them to detect predator, food, and mates. The biological olfactory system is an ideal model for the study of information processing in biological neural networks. Furthermore, knowledge about animal olfaction could be used to improve...
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Chicca, E., Schmuker, M., Nawrot, M. (2014). Neuromorphic Sensors, Olfaction. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_119-2
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