The Effect of Complex Acoustic Environment during Early Development on the Responses of Auditory Cortex Neurons in Rats

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378041%3A_____%2F18%3A00493481" target="_blank" >RIV/68378041:_____/18:00493481 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/71226401:_____/18:N0100010

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.11.049" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.11.049</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.11.049" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.11.049</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Effect of Complex Acoustic Environment during Early Development on the Responses of Auditory Cortex Neurons in Rats

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Acoustical environment plays an important role during the maturation of the auditory system. It has been shown that the sensory inputs to the developing centres influence the development of the structure of projections, neuronal responsiveness, excitatory-inhibitory balance, or tonotopical arrangement, throughout the auditory pathway. Our previous study (Bures et al., 2014) showed that rats reared in a complex acoustic environment (spectrally and temporally modulated sound reinforced by an active behavioural paradigm with a positive feedback) exhibit permanently improved response characteristics of the inferior colliculus (IC) neurons. Extending these results, the current work provides evidence that the changes occur also at the level of auditory cortex (AC). In particular, the enriched animals have lower excitatory thresholds, sharper frequency selectivity, and a lower proportion of non-monotonic rate-intensity functions. In contrast to the changes observed in the IC, the cortical neurons of enriched animals have lower response magnitudes. In addition, the enrichment changed the AC responsiveness to frequency-modulated and also to a lesser extent, amplitude-modulated stimuli. Significantly, the alterations span the entire hearing range and may be regarded as general and not directly linked to the characteristics of the acoustical stimulation. Furthermore, these developmentally induced changes are permanent and detectable in adulthood. The findings indicate that an acoustically enriched environment during the critical period of postnatal development influences basic properties of neuronal receptive fields in the AC, which may have implications for the ability to detect and discriminate sounds.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Effect of Complex Acoustic Environment during Early Development on the Responses of Auditory Cortex Neurons in Rats

Popis výsledku anglicky

Acoustical environment plays an important role during the maturation of the auditory system. It has been shown that the sensory inputs to the developing centres influence the development of the structure of projections, neuronal responsiveness, excitatory-inhibitory balance, or tonotopical arrangement, throughout the auditory pathway. Our previous study (Bures et al., 2014) showed that rats reared in a complex acoustic environment (spectrally and temporally modulated sound reinforced by an active behavioural paradigm with a positive feedback) exhibit permanently improved response characteristics of the inferior colliculus (IC) neurons. Extending these results, the current work provides evidence that the changes occur also at the level of auditory cortex (AC). In particular, the enriched animals have lower excitatory thresholds, sharper frequency selectivity, and a lower proportion of non-monotonic rate-intensity functions. In contrast to the changes observed in the IC, the cortical neurons of enriched animals have lower response magnitudes. In addition, the enrichment changed the AC responsiveness to frequency-modulated and also to a lesser extent, amplitude-modulated stimuli. Significantly, the alterations span the entire hearing range and may be regarded as general and not directly linked to the characteristics of the acoustical stimulation. Furthermore, these developmentally induced changes are permanent and detectable in adulthood. The findings indicate that an acoustically enriched environment during the critical period of postnatal development influences basic properties of neuronal receptive fields in the AC, which may have implications for the ability to detect and discriminate sounds.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10605 - Developmental biology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GBP304%2F12%2FG069" target="_blank" >GBP304/12/G069: Projekt excelence v oblasti neurověd</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Neuroscience

ISSN

0306-4522

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

371

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

feb 10

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

221-228

Kód UT WoS článku

000425876200018

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85039170840