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Journal Article
The descending corticocollicular pathway mediates learning-induced auditory plasticity
2010
Overview
The authors use chromophore-targeted laser photolysis to selectively kill pyramidal neurons that project from auditory cortex to the inferior colliculus. They find that this eliminates the experience-dependent recalibration of sound localization, while leaving normal sound localization intact, implicating this pathway in learning-induced plasticity.
Descending projections from sensory areas of the cerebral cortex are among the largest pathways in the brain, suggesting that they are important for subcortical processing. Although corticofugal inputs have been shown to modulate neuronal responses in the thalamus and midbrain, the behavioral importance of these changes remains unknown. In the auditory system, one of the major descending pathways is from cortical layer V pyramidal cells to the inferior colliculus in the midbrain. We examined the role of these neurons in experience-dependent recalibration of sound localization in adult ferrets by selectively killing the neurons using chromophore-targeted laser photolysis. When provided with appropriate training, animals normally relearn to localize sound accurately after altering the spatial cues available by reversibly occluding one ear. However, this ability was lost after eliminating corticocollicular neurons, whereas normal sound-localization accuracy was unaffected. The integrity of this descending pathway is therefore critical for learning-induced localization plasticity.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ Animal Genetics and Genomics
/ Animals
/ Auditory Cortex - physiology
/ Auditory Pathways - physiology
/ Behavior
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Cues
/ Ear
/ Ferrets
/ Inferior Colliculi - physiology
/ Mustela
/ Neuronal Plasticity - physiology
/ Neurons
/ Owls
/ Pyramidal Cells - physiology
