Inhibitory Neural Circuits in the Mammalian Auditory Midbrain [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Neuroscience, 2018 The auditory midbrain is the critical integration center in the auditory pathway of vertebrates. Synaptic inhibition plays a key role during information processing in the auditory midbrain, and these inhibitory neural circuits are seen in all vertebrates
Munenori Ono, Tetsufumi Itô
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Meta-adaptation in the auditory midbrain under cortical influence [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Neurons in the auditory midbrain are known to modify their firing rates in response to changes in sound intensity. Here the authors show that in guinea pigs, such modifications occur faster when neurons re-encounter the same environment, a phenomenon ...
Nicol S Harper, David Mcalpine
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Constant Resting Frequency and Auditory Midbrain Neuronal Frequency Analysis of Hipposideros pratti in Background White Noise [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Acoustic communication signals are inevitably challenged by ambient noise. In response to noise, many animals adjust their calls to maintain signal detectability.
Guimin Zhang +8 more
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An Overrepresentation of High Frequencies in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus Supports the Processing of Ultrasonic Vocalizations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Mice are of paramount importance in biomedical research and their vocalizations are a subject of interest for researchers across a wide range of health-related disciplines due to their increasingly important value as a phenotyping tool in models of ...
Jose A Garcia-Lazaro +4 more
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Age-related neurochemical changes in the rhesus macaque inferior colliculus. [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2014 Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is marked by audiometric hearing deficits that propagate along the auditory pathway. Neurochemical changes as a function of aging have also been identified in neurons along the auditory pathway in both rodents and ...
James eEngle +6 more
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AP-2δ Expression Kinetics in Multimodal Networks in the Developing Chicken Midbrain
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 AP-2 is a family of transcription factors involved in many aspects of development, cell differentiation, and regulation of cell growth and death. AP-2δ is a member of this group and specific gene expression patterns are required in the adult mouse brain ...
Lutz Kettler +7 more
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Rapid effects of hearing song on catecholaminergic activity in the songbird auditory pathway. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Catecholaminergic (CA) neurons innervate sensory areas and affect the processing of sensory signals. For example, in birds, CA fibers innervate the auditory pathway at each level, including the midbrain, thalamus, and forebrain.
Lisa L Matragrano +6 more
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Subcortical coding of predictable and unsupervised sound-context associations
Current Research in Neurobiology, 2023 Our environment is made of a myriad of stimuli present in combinations often patterned in predictable ways. For example, there is a strong association between where we are and the sounds we hear.
Chi Chen +3 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Temporary conductive hearing loss (CHL) can lead to hearing impairments that persist beyond resolution of the CHL. In particular, unilateral CHL leads to deficits in auditory skills that rely on binaural input (e.g., spatial hearing).
Jennifer L. Thornton +2 more
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Subcortical circuits mediate communication between primary sensory cortical areas in mice
Nature Communications, 2021 In the primary auditory cortex, visual or tactile stimuli can modulate acoustically-driven activity. Here, the authors show that circuits linking the primary somatosensory cortex to both the auditory midbrain and thalamus allow tactile inputs to modulate
Michael Lohse +3 more
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