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J Neurophysiol 86: 326-338, 2001;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 86 No. 1 July 2001, pp. 326-338
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society

Sensory Input Directs Spatial and Temporal Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex

Michael P. Kilgard,1,2 Pritesh K. Pandya,1 Jessica Vazquez,1 Anil Gehi,2 Christoph E. Schreiner,2 and Michael M. Merzenich2,3

 1Neuroscience Program, School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083-0688;  2Coleman Laboratory, Departments of Otolaryngology and Physiology, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco 94143-0444; and  3Scientific Learning Corporation, Berkeley, California 94104-1075

Kilgard, Michael P., Pritesh K. Pandya, Jessica Vazquez, Anil Gehi, Christoph E. Schreiner, and Michael M. Merzenich. Sensory Input Directs Spatial and Temporal Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 86: 326-338, 2001. The cortical representation of the sensory environment is continuously modified by experience. Changes in spatial (receptive field) and temporal response properties of cortical neurons underlie many forms of natural learning. The scale and direction of these changes appear to be determined by specific features of the behavioral tasks that evoke cortical plasticity. The neural mechanisms responsible for this differential plasticity remain unclear partly because important sensory and cognitive parameters differ among these tasks. In this report, we demonstrate that differential sensory experience directs differential plasticity using a single paradigm that eliminates the task-specific variables that have confounded direct comparison of previous studies. Electrical activation of the basal forebrain (BF) was used to gate cortical plasticity mechanisms. The auditory stimulus paired with BF stimulation was systematically varied to determine how several basic features of the sensory input direct plasticity in primary auditory cortex (A1) of adult rats. The distributed cortical response was reconstructed from a dense sampling of A1 neurons after 4 wk of BF-sound pairing. We have previously used this method to show that when a tone is paired with BF activation, the region of the cortical map responding to that tone frequency is specifically expanded. In this report, we demonstrate that receptive-field size is determined by features of the stimulus paired with BF activation. Specifically, receptive fields were narrowed or broadened as a systematic function of both carrier-frequency variability and the temporal modulation rate of paired acoustic stimuli. For example, the mean bandwidth of A1 neurons was increased (+60%) after pairing BF stimulation with a rapid train of tones and decreased (-25%) after pairing unmodulated tones of different frequencies. These effects are consistent with previous reports of receptive-field plasticity evoked by natural learning. The maximum cortical following rate and minimum response latency were also modified as a function of stimulus modulation rate and carrier-frequency variability. The cortical response to a rapid train of tones was nearly doubled if BF stimulation was paired with rapid trains of random carrier frequency, while no following rate plasticity was observed if a single carrier frequency was used. Finally, we observed significant increases in response strength and total area of functionally defined A1 following BF activation paired with certain classes of stimuli and not others. These results indicate that the degree and direction of cortical plasticity of temporal and receptive-field selectivity are specified by the structure and schedule of inputs that co-occur with basal forebrain activation and suggest that the rules of cortical plasticity do not operate on each elemental stimulus feature independently of others.




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