Orbitofrontal Cortex Modulates Auditory Cortical Sensitivity and Sound Perception in Mongolian gerbils
dc.contributor.advisor | Caras, Melissa L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Macedo-Lima, Matheus | |
dc.contributor.author | Hamlette, Lashaka Sierra | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-06T14:59:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-06T14:59:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.description | This dataset includes preprocessed data from the following techniques: - Electrophysiology - Fiber photometry - Behavior Analysis pipeline can be found in: https://github.com/caraslab/MacedoLima_CurBiol2024 | |
dc.description.abstract | Sensory perception is dynamic, quickly adapting to sudden shifts in environmental or behavioral context. Though decades of work have established that these dynamics are mediated by rapid fluctuations in sensory cortical activity, we have a limited understanding of the brain regions and pathways that orchestrate these changes. Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) encode contextual information, and recent data suggest that some of these signals are transmitted to sensory cortices. Whether and how these signals shape sensory encoding and perceptual sensitivity remains uncertain. Here, we asked whether the OFC mediates context-dependent changes in auditory cortical sensitivity and sound perception by monitoring and manipulating OFC activity in freely moving Mongolian gerbils of both sexes under two behavioral contexts: passive sound exposure and engagement in an amplitude modulation (AM) detection task. We found that the majority of OFC neurons, including the specific subset that innervate the auditory cortex, were strongly modulated by task engagement. Pharmacological inactivation of the OFC prevented rapid context-dependent changes in auditory cortical firing, and significantly impaired behavioral AM detection. Our findings suggest that contextual information from the OFC mediates rapid plasticity in the auditory cortex and facilitates the perception of behaviorally relevant sounds. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Purchase of the Zeiss LSM 980 Airyscan 2 was supported by Award Number 1S10OD025223-01A1 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This work was supported by NIH R00DC016046 and R01DC020742. | |
dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/qzzx-zfuh | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/32599 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Current Biology | |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | College of Computer, Mathematical & Physical Sciences | en_us |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_us |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Biology | en_us |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, MD) | en_us |
dc.subject | attention | |
dc.subject | prefrontal cortex | |
dc.subject | top-down | |
dc.subject | cortical plasticity | |
dc.subject | behavioral context | |
dc.title | Orbitofrontal Cortex Modulates Auditory Cortical Sensitivity and Sound Perception in Mongolian gerbils | |
dc.type | Dataset | |
local.equitableAccessSubmission | No |
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