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Acoustically Enriched Environment during the Critical Period of Postnatal Development Positively Modulates Gap Detection and Frequency Discrimination Abilities in Adult Rats

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378041%3A_____%2F21%3A00551111" target="_blank" >RIV/68378041:_____/21:00551111 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11120/21:43921321 RIV/68407700:21730/21:00350041

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2021/6611922/" target="_blank" >https://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2021/6611922/</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6611922" target="_blank" >10.1155/2021/6611922</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Acoustically Enriched Environment during the Critical Period of Postnatal Development Positively Modulates Gap Detection and Frequency Discrimination Abilities in Adult Rats

  • Original language description

    Throughout life, sensory systems adapt to the sensory environment to provide optimal responses to relevant tasks. In the case of a developing system, sensory inputs induce changes that are permanent and detectable up to adulthood. Previously, we have shown that rearing rat pups in a complex acoustic environment (spectrally and temporally modulated sound) from postnatal day 14 (P14) to P28 permanently improves the response characteristics of neurons in the inferior colliculus and auditory cortex, influencing tonotopical arrangement, response thresholds and strength, and frequency selectivity, along with stochasticity and the reproducibility of neuronal spiking patterns. In this study, we used a set of behavioral tests based on a recording of the acoustic startle response (ASR) and its prepulse inhibition (PPI), with the aim to extend the evidence of the persistent beneficial effects of the developmental acoustical enrichment. The enriched animals were generally not more sensitive to startling sounds, and also, their PPI of ASR, induced by noise or pure tone pulses, was comparable to the controls. They did, however, exhibit a more pronounced PPI when the prepulse stimulus was represented either by a change in the frequency of a background tone or by a silent gap in background noise. The differences in the PPI of ASR between the enriched and control animals were significant at lower (55 dB SPL), but not at higher (65-75 dB SPL), intensities of background sound. Thus, rearing pups in the acoustically enriched environment led to an improvement of the frequency resolution and gap detection ability under more difficult testing conditions, i.e., with a worsened stimulus clarity. We confirmed, using behavioral tests, that an acoustically enriched environment during the critical period of development influences the frequency and temporal processing in the auditory system, and these changes persist until adulthood.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Result continuities

  • Project

    Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Neural Plasticity

  • ISSN

    2090-5904

  • e-ISSN

    1687-5443

  • Volume of the periodical

    mar.

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2021

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    21

  • Pages from-to

    6611922

  • UT code for WoS article

    000631854800002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85103287384