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J Neurophysiol (December 11, 2002). doi:10.1152/jn.00627.2002
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Submitted on July 31, 2002
Accepted on December 6, 2002

Sensory-Motor Interaction in the Primate Auditory Cortex during Self-Initiated Vocalizations

Steven J. Eliades1 and Xiaoqin Wang1*

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: xwang{at}bme.jhu.edu.

Little is known about sensory-motor interaction in the auditory cortex of primates at the level of single neurons and its role in supporting vocal communication. The present study investigated single-unit activities in the auditory cortex of a vocal primate, the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), during self-initiated vocalizations. We found that 1) self-initiated vocalizations resulted in suppression of neural discharges in a majority of auditory cortical units. The vocalization-induced inhibition suppressed both spontaneous and stimulus-driven discharges. Suppressed units responded poorly to external acoustic stimuli during vocalization. 2) Vocalization-induced suppression began several hundred milliseconds prior to the onset of vocalization. 3) The suppression of cortical discharges reduced neural firings to below the rates expected from a unit's rate-level function, adjusted for known subcortical attenuation, and therefore was likely not entirely caused by known subcortical attenuation mechanisms. 4) A second, smaller, type of responses by auditory cortical neurons were increased discharges during self-initiated vocalizations. This vocalization-related excitation began after the onset of vocalization and is likely the result of acoustic feedback. Units showing this excitation responded nearly normally to external stimuli during vocalization. Based on these findings we propose that the suppression of auditory cortical neurons, possibly originating from cortical vocal production centers, acts to increase the dynamic range of cortical responses to vocalization feedback for self monitoring. The excitatory responses, on the other hand, likely play a role in maintaining sensitivity to the external acoustic environment during vocalization.




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