Charles F. Stevens

The paper investigates the scalability of distributed circuits, finding the olfactory circuit meets three criteria of scalability across six mammals.

The paper describes how the fly's olfactory circuit solves a similarity search problem using a novel algorithm inspired by locality-sensitive hashing, improving performance on benchmark datasets.

The paper provides volumetric estimates and neuronal density calculations for the mouse piriform cortex, showing it contains around half a million neurons equally distributed between anterior and posterior regions.