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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 83 No. 6 June 2000, pp. 3578-3582
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

Onset of Cross-Modal Synthesis in the Neonatal Superior Colliculus is Gated by the Development of Cortical Influences

M. T. Wallace and B. E. Stein

Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157

Wallace, M. T. and B. E. Stein. Onset of Cross-Modal Synthesis in the Neonatal Superior Colliculus is Gated by the Development of Cortical Influences. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 3578-3582, 2000. Many neurons in the superior colliculus (SC) are able to integrate combinations of visual, auditory, and somatosensory stimuli, thereby markedly affecting the vigor of their responses to external stimuli. However, this capacity for multisensory integration is not inborn. Rather, it appears comparatively late in postnatal development and is not expressed until the SC passes through several distinct developmental stages. As shown here, the final stage in this sequence is one in which a region of association cortex establishes functional control over the SC, thus enabling the multisensory integrative capabilities of its target SC neurons. The first example of this corticotectal input was seen at postnatal day 28. For any individual SC neuron, the onset of corticotectal influences appeared to be abrupt. Because this event occurred at very different times for different SC neurons, a period of 3-4 postnatal months was required before the adult-like condition was achieved. The protracted postnatal period required for the maturation of these corticotectal influences corresponded closely with estimates of the peak period of cortical plasticity, raising the possibility that the genesis of these corticotectal influences, and hence the onset of SC multisensory integration, occurs only after the cortex is capable of exerting experience-dependent control over SC neurons.




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