ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2015
Seasonal plasticity of precise spike timing in the avian auditory system.
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- Auditory learning in an operant task with social reinforcement is dependent on neuroestrogen synthesis in the male songbird auditory cortex.Hormones and behavior · 2020Article
- Developmental deprivation-induced perceptual and cortical processing deficits in awake-behaving animals.eLife · 2018Article
- A Membrane G-Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor Is Necessary but Not Sufficient for Sex Differences in Zebra Finch Auditory Coding.Endocrinology · 2018Article
- Norepinephrine enhances song responsiveness and encoding in the auditory forebrain of male zebra finches.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Anesthesia and brain sensory processing: impact on neuronal responses in a female songbird.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Serotonin, estrus, and social context influence c-Fos immunoreactivity in the inferior colliculus.Behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- Seasonal variations in auditory processing in the inferior colliculus of Eptesicus fuscus.Hearing research · 2016Article
- It takes a seasoned bird to be a good listener: communication between the sexes.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Vertebrate audition is a dynamic process, capable of exhibiting both short- and long-term adaptations to varying listening conditions. Precise spike timing has long been known to play an important role in auditory encoding, but its role in sensory plasticity remains largely unexplored. We addressed this issue in Gambel's white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii), a songbird that shows pronounced seasonal fluctuations in circulating levels of sex-steroid hormones, which are known to be potent neuromodulators of auditory function. We recorded extracellular single-unit activity in the auditory forebrain of males and females under different breeding conditions and used a computational approach to explore two potential strategies for the neural discrimination of sound level: one based on spike counts and one based on spike timing reliability. We report that breeding condition has robust sex-specific effects on spike timing. Specifically, in females, breeding condition increases the proportion of cells that rely solely on spike timing information and increases the temporal resolution required for optimal intensity encoding. Furthermore, in a functionally distinct subset of cells that are particularly well suited for amplitude encoding, female breeding condition enhances spike timing-based discrimination accuracy. No effects of breeding condition were observed in males. Our results suggest that high-resolution temporal discharge patterns may provide a plastic neural substrate for sensory coding.
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