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Local Field Potentials and Spiking Activity in the Primary Auditory Cortex in Response to Social Calls

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057

Submitted 23 December 2003; accepted in final form 9 February 2004

The mustached bat, Pteronotus parnellii, uses complex communication sounds ("calls") for social interactions. We recorded both event-related local field potentials (LFPs) and single/few-unit (SU) spike activity from the same electrode in the posterior region of the primary auditory cortex (AIp) during presentation of simple syllabic calls to awake bats. Temporal properties of the LFPs, which reflect activity within local neuronal clusters, and spike discharges from SUs were studied at 138 recording sites in six bats using seven variants each of 14 simple syllables presented at intensity levels of 40–90 dB SPL. There was no clear spatial selectivity to different call types within the AIp area. Rather, as shown previously, single units responded to multiple call types with similar values of the peak response rate in the peri-stimulus time histogram (PSTH). The LFPs and SUs, however, showed a rich temporal structure that was unique for each call type. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) of the averaged waveforms of call-evoked LFPs and PSTHs revealed that calls were better segregated in the two-dimensional space based on the LFP compared with the PSTH data. A representation within the "LFP-space" revealed that one of the dimensions correlated with the predominant and fundamental frequency of a call. The other dimension showed a high correlation with "harmonic complexity" ("fine" spectral structure of a call). We suggest that the temporal pattern of LFP and spiking activity reflects call-specific dynamics at any locus within the AIp area. This dynamic contributes to a distributed (population-based) representation of calls. Alternatively stated, the fundamental frequency and harmonic structure of calls, and not the recording location within the AIp, determines the temporal structure of the call-evoked LFP.

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