Stimulus Temporal Coherence Strongly Influences Rapid Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex under Global Attention

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dc.contributor.advisorShamma, Shihab Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorXu, Yanboen_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-24T05:30:52Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T05:30:52Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractTemporal coherence of stimulus features is a key property of sounds that emanate from single source. Consequently, it is important to understand how it may influence the direction and extent of the rapid plasticity postulated to occur during the streaming of concurrent sounds. We postulated that when animals listen attentively to coherent or incoherent stimuli, responses would adapt to effectively encode the correlational structure of the stimuli. In this study, ferrets were trained to attend globally to two-tone sequences which were played either simultaneously (SYNC) or alternatively (ALT) on a trial-by-trial basis, and to detect a transition to a random cloud of tones by licking a waterspout for reward. Neuronal activities were collected in the primary auditory cortex during performing the task and passively listening to the same stimuli sequences. Compared with the passive condition, neuronal responses changed distinctively between SYNC and ALT trials under the effect of attention. These results provide neuronal evidence for the role of stimulus temporal coherence in modulating responses during attentive listening to complex sounds.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15097
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledElectrical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledNeurosciencesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledauditory streamingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledneurophysiologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledplasticityen_US
dc.titleStimulus Temporal Coherence Strongly Influences Rapid Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex under Global Attentionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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