Cooke, JE;
Lee, JJ;
Bartlett, EL;
Wang, X;
Bendor, D;
(2020)
Post-stimulatory activity in primate auditory cortex evoked by sensory stimulation during passive listening.
Scientific Reports
, 10
, Article 13885. 10.1038/s41598-020-70397-0.
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Abstract
Under certain circumstances, cortical neurons are capable of elevating their fring for long durations in the absence of a stimulus. Such activity has typically been observed and interpreted in the context of performance of a behavioural task. Here we investigated whether post-stimulatory activity is observed in auditory cortex and the medial geniculate body of the thalamus in the absence of any explicit behavioural task. We recorded spiking activity from single units in the auditory cortex (felds A1, R and RT) and auditory thalamus of awake, passively-listening marmosets. We observed poststimulatory activity that lasted for hundreds of milliseconds following the termination of the acoustic stimulus. Post-stimulatory activity was observed following both adapting, sustained and suppressed response profles during the stimulus. These response types were observed across all cortical felds tested, but were largely absent from the auditory thalamus. As well as being of shorter duration, thalamic post-stimulatory activity emerged following a longer latency than in cortex, indicating that post-stimulatory activity may be generated within auditory cortex during passive listening. Given that these responses were observed in the absence of an explicit behavioural task, post-stimulatory activity in sensory cortex may play a functional role in processes such as echoic memory and temporal integration that occur during passive listening.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Post-stimulatory activity in primate auditory cortex evoked by sensory stimulation during passive listening |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-70397-0 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70397-0 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10108943 |
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