ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013
Coding the meaning of sounds: contextual modulation of auditory responses in the basolateral amygdala.
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Abstract
Female mice emit a low-frequency harmonic (LFH) call in association with distinct behavioral contexts: mating and physical threat or pain. Here we report the results of acoustic, behavioral, and neurophysiological studies of the contextual analysis of these calls in CBA/CaJ mice. We first show that the acoustical features of the LFH call do not differ between contexts. We then show that male mice avoid the LFH call in the presence of a predator cue (cat fur) but are more attracted to the same exemplar of the call in the presence of a mating cue (female urine). The males thus use nonauditory cues to determine the meaning of the LFH call, but these cues do not generalize to noncommunication sounds, such as noise bursts. We then characterized neural correlates of contextual meaning of the LFH call in responses of basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons from awake, freely moving mice. There were two major findings. First, BLA neurons typically displayed early excitation to all tested behaviorally aversive stimuli. Second, the nonauditory context modulates the BLA population response to the LFH call but not to the noncommunication sound. These results suggest that the meaning of communication calls is reflected in the spike discharge patterns of BLA neurons.
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