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Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
Submitted 14 April 2003; accepted in final form 2 June 2003
Reorganization of the frequency map in the central auditory system is based on shifts in the best frequencies (BFs; hereafter, BF shifts), together with the frequency-response curves, of auditory neurons. In the big brown bat, conditioning with acoustic stimulation followed by electric leg-stimulation causes BF shifts of collicular and cortical neurons. The collicular BF shift develops quickly and is short term, whereas the cortical BF shift develops slowly and is long term. The acetycholine level in the auditory cortex must be high during conditioning to develop these BF shifts. We studied the effect of atropine (an antagonist of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors) applied to the auditory cortex on the development of the long-term cortical BF shift in the awake bat caused by a 30-min conditioning session. We found 1) the cortical BF shift starts to develop 
15 min after the onset of the conditioning, gradually increases over 60 min, and reaches a plateau, 2) the cortical BF shift changes from short to long term 45 min after the onset of the conditioning, 3) the cortical BF shift can plateau at different frequencies between the BF of a given neuron in the control condition and the frequency of the conditioning tone, 4) the maximum BF shift is determined 70 min after the onset of the conditioning, and 5) acetylcholine plays an important role in the development of the cortical BF shift. Its role ends 180 min after the onset of the conditioning.
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