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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2026

Timing and Convergence of Ensemble Activity Govern Auditory Thalamocortical Transmission.

Congcong Hu, Andrea R Hasenstaub, Christoph E Schreiner

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Congcong HuJohn & Edward Coleman Memorial Laboratory, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158.
Andrea R HasenstaubJohn & Edward Coleman Memorial Laboratory, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158.ORCID 0000-0003-3998-5073
Christoph E SchreinerJohn & Edward Coleman Memorial Laboratory, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158 christoph.schreiner@ucsf.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4571-4328

Funding

FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEXR01DC002260 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SCHREINER, CHRISTOPH E. · 1995 to 2020
$9.2M
Clustered protocadherin regulation of cortical interneuron survival circuit assembly and plasticityR01MH122478 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ALVAREZ-BUYLLA, ARTURO, HASENSTAUB, ANDREA RAYNE · 2020 to 2024
$3.7M
Auditory Cortical Processing in Hearing LossR01DC017396 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SCHREINER, CHRISTOPH E. · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Interneuron Precursors and the induction of cortical plasticityR01EY025174 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ALVAREZ-BUYLLA, ARTURO, HASENSTAUB, ANDREA RAYNE · 2015 to 2019
$2.1M
Dynamic regulation of auditory context processing by cortical inhibitionR01DC014101 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HASENSTAUB, ANDREA RAYNE · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Cortical circuitry supporting flexible audiovisual interactions and behaviorsRF1NS116598 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HASENSTAUB, ANDREA RAYNE · 2020 to 2022
$1.8M
Structure and Function of Coordinated Activity in the Auditory SystemR01DC021595 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Andrea Rayne Hasenstaub · 2025 to 2026
$1.4M
Cortical circuitry supporting flexible audiovisual interactions and behaviorsR01NS116598 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HASENSTAUB, ANDREA RAYNE · 2023 to 2024
$1.0M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coordinated neuronal activity plays an important role in information processing and transmission in the brain. While ensembles' activity provides a more specific and less noisy version of sensory stimulus information than single neurons, their role in information transmission in the auditory pathway remains unclear. We investigated the effects of ensemble activity in the medial geniculate body (MGB) on the activation of neurons in the primary auditory cortex (A1) in female rats. MGB ensembles synchronized within narrow time windows more effectively induced A1 responses than single neurons or ensembles defined in broader time windows. This was facilitated by the convergence of ensemble inputs onto target neurons. Transmission efficacy was higher for narrow-spiking (NS) A1 neurons compared with broad-spiking (BS) neurons. Cortical UP states in isolation had no discernable effect on the transmission efficacy of thalamic cNEs. These findings highlight neuronal ensembles as focal functional units that enhance information transmission in the brain.

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Auditory CortexAuditory PathwaysGeniculate BodiesNeuronsSynaptic TransmissionThalamusAcoustic StimulationAction PotentialsAnimalsFemaleRatsTime Factorsauditory cortexauditory thalamusensemblestransmission

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PMID41605652
PMCPMC12940454

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