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    Area of Science:

    • Neuroscience
    • Auditory Perception
    • Decision Making

    Background:

    • Sensory perception dynamically adapts to environmental and behavioral context.
    • Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) neurons encode contextual information and project to sensory cortices.
    • The precise role of OFC in orchestrating context-dependent sensory processing remains unclear.

    Approach:

    • Monitored and manipulated OFC activity in freely moving animals during passive sound exposure and an auditory detection task.
    • Investigated OFC neuronal modulation by task engagement and its projections to the auditory cortex.
    • Utilized pharmacological inactivation of the OFC to assess its causal role in auditory cortical plasticity and behavior.

    Key Points:

    • The majority of OFC neurons, including those projecting to the auditory cortex, showed significant modulation with task engagement.
    • OFC inactivation abolished rapid, context-dependent changes in auditory cortical activity.
    • Inactivation of the OFC impaired the ability to detect amplitude-modulated sounds.

    Conclusions:

    • The OFC plays a crucial role in mediating context-dependent plasticity within the auditory cortex.
    • OFC signals facilitate the perception of behaviorally relevant sounds by modulating auditory cortical sensitivity.
    • This research elucidates a key pathway for top-down control of sensory processing and perception.