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Attention and Dynamic, Task-Related Receptive Field Plasticity in Adult Auditory Cortex

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Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 45))

Abstract

The brain is an extraordinarily adaptive and predictive machine, adapting to present demands and predicting the future, and reveals tremendous plasticity in multiple diverse forms, from birth through adulthood. Neuronal plasticity is a fundamental property of neurons and neuronal circuits because it facilitates adaptation to new environments, dynamically adjusts cortical sensory filters to improve processing of salient stimuli to optimize task performance, enables prediction of reward, and provides the basis for learning from experience. Depending upon the time scales and mechanisms involved in induction and persistence of receptive field (RF) changes, these changes may be described as ephemeral stimulus-driven adaptive plasticity, rapid attention-driven plasticity, or consolidated learning-induced plasticity. There are likely to be common molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying all rapid RF transformations, but also some striking differences that contribute to auditory perception and cognition.

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Abbreviations

A1:

primary auditory cortex

AC:

auditory cortex

ACh:

acetylcholine

BF:

best frequency of cell receptive field

CA:

conditioned avoidance

CS:

conditioning stimulus

EEG:

electroencephalographic

FC:

frontal cortex

fMRI:

functional magnetic resonance imaging

FRF:

frequency response fields

GABA:

γ-aminobutyric acid

IC:

inferior colliculus

MEG:

magentoencephalographic

MGB:

medial geniculate nucleus

NB:

nucleus basalis

PFC:

prefrontal cortex

PR:

positive reinforcement

RF:

receptive field

RFP:

receptive field plasticity

SSA:

stimulus-specific adaptation

STRF:

spectrotemporal receptive field

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Fritz, J.B., David, S., Shamma, S. (2013). Attention and Dynamic, Task-Related Receptive Field Plasticity in Adult Auditory Cortex. In: Cohen, Y., Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 45. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2350-8_9

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