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J Neurophysiol 65: 1275-1296, 1991;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 65, Issue 6 1275-1296, Copyright © 1991 by APS

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Combination-sensitive neurons in the medial geniculate body of the mustached bat: encoding of target range information

J. F. Olsen and N. Suga
Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130.

1. Delay-tuned combination-sensitive neurons (FM-FM neurons) have been discovered in the dorsal and medial divisions of the medial geniculate body (MGB) of the mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii). In this paper we present evidence for a thalamic origin for FM-FM neurons. Our examination of the response properties of FM-FM neurons indicates that the neural mechanism of delay-tuning depends on coincidence detection and involves an interaction between neural inhibition and excitation. 2. The biosonar pulse (P) and its echo (E) produced and heard by the mustached bat consist of four harmonics; each harmonic contains a constant frequency (CF) component and a frequency modulated (FM) component. Thus the pulse-echo pair contains eight CF components (PCF1-4, ECF1-4) and eight FM components (PFM1-4, EFM1-4). The stimuli used in this study consisted of CF, FM, and CF-FM sounds: paired CF-FM sounds were used to simulate any two harmonics of pulse-echo pairs. The responses of FM-FM neurons in the MGB were recorded extracellularly. We found that FM-FM neurons respond poorly or not at all to single sounds, respond strongly to paired sounds, and are tuned to the frequency and amplitude of each sound of the pair and to the time interval separating them (simulated echo delay). 3. All FM-FM neurons are facilitated by paired FM sounds and most are facilitated by paired CF sounds. Best facilitative frequencies measured with paired CF sounds fall outside the frequency ranges of the CF components of biosonar signals, whereas best facilitative frequencies measured with paired FM sounds fall within the frequency ranges of the FM components of biosonar signals. Thus FM-FM neurons are expected to respond selectively to combinations of FM components in biosonar signals. The FM components of pulse-echo pairs essential to facilitate FM-FM neurons are the FM component of the fundamental of the pulse (PFM1) in combination with the FM component of the second, third, or fourth harmonic of an echo (EFM2, EFM3, EFM4; collectively, EFMn). 4. The frequency combinations to which FM-FM neurons are tuned reflect small deviations from the harmonic relationship such as occurs in combinations of FM components from pulses and Doppler-shifted echoes. Compared with CF/CF neurons, however, FM-FM neurons are broadly tuned to stimulus frequency. Thus FM-FM neurons are Doppler-shift tolerant and relatively unspecialized for processing velocity information in the frequency domain.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)


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