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Auditory associative learning and its neural correlates in the auditory midbrain

dc.contributor.advisorGütig, Robert Dr.
dc.contributor.authorChen, Chi
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-08T10:38:59Z
dc.date.available2021-01-08T10:38:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-08
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-153C-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-8393
dc.language.isoengde
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc570de
dc.titleAuditory associative learning and its neural correlates in the auditory midbrainde
dc.typedoctoralThesisde
dc.contributor.refereeGollisch, Tim Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination2019-01-21
dc.description.abstractengInterpreting the meaning of environmental stimuli to generate optimal behavioral responses is essential for survival. Simply sensing a sound, without accessing prior knowledge in the brain, will not benefit behavior. How sensation and memory interact to form behavior is one of the fundamental questions in the field of neuroscience. In this thesis, I have addressed this question from two perspectives: I investigated the behavioral outcome of this interaction using discrimination, and the circuit underlying this interaction using electrophysiological recordings in the behaving mouse. Behaviorally, we found that the physical difference between to-be-discriminated sounds, had a constraining effect on discrimination. This effect occurred even though physical differences were significantly larger than reported discrimination limens, thus reflecting a high overlap between the memory traces of the relevant stimuli. The results suggest a strong role of pre-wired tonotopic organization and the involvement of peripheral stations with wider tuning (Ehret and Merzenich, 1985; Taberner and Liberman, 2005). To further understand the influence of sensation on behavior, we tested the interaction between sound features with generalization. Using sounds that differed in two dimensions, we found that bi-dimensional generalization can be either biased towards a single dimension or an integration of both. Whether it was one or the other depended on the two dimensions used. As the first convergence station in the auditory system (Casseday et al., 2002), the role of the inferior colliculus in encoding behavioral relevant information is not well understood. Recording from freely behaving mouse, we found task engagement modulated neural activity in the IC in a stimulus-specific manner. Our lab found previously that relevant sound exposure induced enhancement in neural activity and shifts in tonal representation in the IC (Cruces-Solís et al., 2018). As a continuation, we found that movement-sound association is essential for this plasticity. Furthermore, recording in freely behaving mice also found that this association modulated the ongoing LFP in the IC, suggesting a new role of IC in filtering movement-related acoustic stimuli. To conclude, our results support the view that the IC is not simply an auditory structure that relays auditory information into the cortex, but plays important role in interpreting the meaning of the sound. The new role of IC in encoding movement-related information suggests that the filtering function of the auditory system starts already in subcortical stages of the auditory pathway.de
dc.contributor.coRefereeGail, Alexander Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.thirdRefereede Hoz, Livia Dr.
dc.subject.enganimal behaviourde
dc.subject.engperceptionde
dc.subject.engauditory systemde
dc.subject.enggeneralizationde
dc.subject.engsensory processingde
dc.subject.engthe Inferior Colliculusde
dc.subject.engsubcorticalde
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:gbv:7-21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-153C-1-7
dc.affiliation.instituteGöttinger Graduiertenschule für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)de
dc.subject.gokfullBiologie (PPN619462639)de
dc.identifier.ppn174427553X


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