Temporal features of spectral integration in the inferior colliculus: effects of stimulus duration and rise time.

Title

Temporal features of spectral integration in the inferior colliculus: effects of stimulus duration and rise time.

Creator

Gans Donald; Sheykholeslami Kianoush; Peterson Diana Coomes; Wenstrup Jeffrey

Publisher

Journal of neurophysiology

Date

2009
2009-07

Description

This report examines temporal features of facilitation and suppression that underlie spectrally integrative responses to complex vocal signals. Auditory responses were recorded from 160 neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) of awake mustached bats. Sixty-two neurons showed combination-sensitive facilitation: responses to best frequency (BF) signals were facilitated by well-timed signals at least an octave lower in frequency, in the range 16-31 kHz. Temporal features and strength of facilitation were generally unaffected by changes in duration of facilitating signals from 4 to 31 ms. Changes in stimulus rise time from 0.5 to 5.0 ms had little effect on facilitatory strength. These results suggest that low frequency facilitating inputs to high BF neurons have phasic-on temporal patterns and are responsive to stimulus rise times over the tested range. We also recorded from 98 neurons showing low-frequency (11-32 kHz) suppression of higher BF responses. Effects of changing duration were related to the frequency of suppressive signals. Signals\textless23 kHz usually evoked suppression sustained throughout signal duration. This and other features of such suppression are consistent with a cochlear origin that results in masking of responses to higher, near-BF signal frequencies. Signals in the 23- to 30-kHz range-frequencies in the first sonar harmonic-generally evoked phasic suppression of BF responses. This may result from neural inhibitory interactions within and below IC. In many neurons, we observed two or more forms of the spectral interactions described here. Thus IC neurons display temporally and spectrally complex responses to sound that result from multiple spectral interactions at different levels of the ascending auditory pathway.

Subject

Acoustic Stimulation/methods; Action Potentials/physiology; Animals; Auditory Perception/*physiology; Auditory Threshold/*physiology; Chiroptera/physiology; Inferior Colliculi/*cytology; Neural Inhibition/physiology; Neurons/*physiology; Predictive Value of Tests; Psycholinguistics; Reaction Time/*physiology; Time Factors; Wakefulness/physiology

Rights

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Pages

167–180

Issue

1

Volume

102

Citation

Gans Donald; Sheykholeslami Kianoush; Peterson Diana Coomes; Wenstrup Jeffrey, “Temporal features of spectral integration in the inferior colliculus: effects of stimulus duration and rise time.,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed March 18, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/4687.