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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2023

Orbitofrontal cortex conveys stimulus and task information to the auditory cortex.

Jonah K Mittelstadt, Patrick O Kanold

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonah K MittelstadtDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Patrick O KanoldDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: pkanold@jhu.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Murine Mutagenesis CoreP30NS050274 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KOLODKIN, ALEX L · 2005 to 2020
$10.9M
Dynamic processing of sound in auditory cortexR01DC017785 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KANOLD, PATRICK O · 2021 to 2025
$2.7M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017785NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS050274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Auditory cortical neurons modify their response profiles in response to numerous external factors. During task performance, changes in primary auditory cortex (A1) responses are thought to be driven by top-down inputs from the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which may lead to response modification on a trial-by-trial basis. While OFC neurons respond to auditory stimuli and project to A1, the function of OFC projections to A1 during auditory tasks is unknown. Here, we observed the activity of putative OFC terminals in A1 in mice by using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging of OFC terminals under passive conditions and during a tone detection task. We found that behavioral activity modulates but is not necessary to evoke OFC terminal responses in A1. OFC terminals in A1 form distinct populations that exclusively respond to either the tone, reward, or error. Using tones against a background of white noise, we found that OFC terminal activity was modulated by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in both the passive and active conditions and that OFC terminal activity varied with SNR, and thus task difficulty in the active condition. Therefore, OFC projections in A1 are heterogeneous in their modulation of auditory encoding and likely contribute to auditory processing under various auditory conditions.

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Auditory CortexAcoustic StimulationAnimalsAuditory PerceptionMiceNeuronsPrefrontal Cortexauditory cortexbehaviororbitofrontal cortexsignal-to-noise ratiotop-down

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PMID37716349
PMCPMC10602585
OpenAlexW4386769529

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