Figure 6. Effects of a linalool background on the decay of the firing response to a single pheromone pulse.

The mean firing rate of Ph-ORNs in response to the 1st pulse of a pheromone pulse train at 1 pps in neutral background (dashed line, mean of n = 54 recordings) or linalool background (solid line, n = 45) was calculated. Then, we estimated the exponential decay function in neutral (inset: dashed line) or linalool background (solid line) in normalized scale; black points in the inset: 90% fall decay.