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Sensory input directs spatial and temporal plasticity in primary auditory cortex.

M P Kilgard1, P K Pandya, J Vazquez

  • 1Neuroscience Program, School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083-0688, USA. kilgard@utdallas.edu

Journal of Neurophysiology
|June 30, 2001
PubMed
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Experience shapes brain plasticity. This study shows that specific features of auditory stimuli paired with basal forebrain (BF) activation precisely control changes in auditory cortex (A1) receptive fields and temporal processing in rats.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Learning and Memory

Background:

  • Cortical representation of sensory information is dynamic and shaped by experience.
  • Natural learning involves changes in neuronal receptive fields and temporal response properties.
  • Previous studies on cortical plasticity are confounded by task-specific variables.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how specific sensory input features direct cortical plasticity.
  • To elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying differential plasticity using a controlled paradigm.
  • To determine the role of basal forebrain (BF) stimulation in gating plasticity in the primary auditory cortex (A1).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized electrical activation of the basal forebrain (BF) to gate plasticity mechanisms in adult rats.

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  • Systematically varied auditory stimulus features (carrier-frequency variability, temporal modulation rate) paired with BF stimulation.
  • Reconstructed the distributed cortical response by dense sampling of A1 neurons after 4 weeks of BF-sound pairing.

    • Main Results:

    • Receptive-field size in A1 was systematically altered (broadened or narrowed) based on stimulus features.
    • A rapid train of tones paired with BF stimulation broadened receptive fields (+60%), while unmodulated tones narrowed them (-25%).
    • Cortical following rate and response latency were modified by stimulus modulation rate and frequency variability; BF stimulation paired with rapid random tones nearly doubled cortical following rate.

    Conclusions:

    • The structure and timing of sensory inputs co-occurring with BF activation specify the degree and direction of cortical plasticity.
    • Cortical plasticity rules do not operate independently on each stimulus feature.
    • This provides a framework for understanding how experience-dependent plasticity is precisely controlled in the auditory cortex.