Spectral Integration in A1 of Awake Primates: Neurons With Single- and Multipeaked Tuning Characteristics

Author:

Kadia Siddhartha C.1,Wang Xiaoqin1

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205

Abstract

We investigated modulations by stimulus components placed outside of the classical receptive field in the primary auditory cortex (A1) of awake marmosets. Two classes of neurons were identified using single tone stimuli: neurons with single-peaked frequency tuning characteristics (147/185, 80%) and neurons with multipeaked frequency tuning characteristics (38/185, 20%), referred to as single- and multipeaked units, respectively. Each class of neurons was further studied using two-tone paradigms in which the frequency, intensity, and timing of the second tone were systematically varied while a unit was driven by the first tone placed at a unit's characteristic frequency (CF) if it was single-peaked or at one of multiple spectral peaks if it was multipeaked. The main findings were: 1) excitatory spectral peaks in the frequency tuning of the multipeaked units were often harmonically related. 2) Multipeaked units showed facilitation in their responses to combinations of two harmonically related tones placed at the spectral peaks of their frequency tuning. The two-tone facilitation was strongest for the simultaneously presented tones. 3) In 76 of 113 single-peaked units studied using the two-tone paradigm, facilitatory and/or inhibitory modulations by distant off-CF tones were observed. This distant inhibition differed from flanking (or side-band) inhibitions near CF. 4) In single-peaked units, the distant off-CF inhibitions were dominated by tones at frequencies that were harmonically related to the CF of a unit, whereas the facilitation by off-CF tones was observed for a wide range of frequencies. And 5) in both single- and multipeaked units, sound levels of two interacting tones determined whether the two tones produced excitation or inhibition. The largest facilitation was achieved by using two tones at their corresponding preferred sound levels. Together, these findings suggest that extracting or rejecting harmonically related components embedded in complex sounds may represent fundamental signal processing properties in different classes of A1 neurons.

Publisher

American Physiological Society

Subject

Physiology,General Neuroscience

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