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Sensory experience selectively reorganizes the late component of evoked responses

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CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 33, Issue 6, Pages 2626-2640

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac231

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cortical dynamics; sensory perception; spatiotemporal cortical patterns; sensory experience; learning; sensory cortices

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Repeated tactile or auditory stimulation selectively modifies the spatiotemporal patterns of cortical activity, mainly in the late evoked response. This modification lasts up to 60 minutes and only affects the evoked responses of the sensory modality receiving the repeated stimulation.
In response to sensory stimulation, the cortex exhibits an early transient response followed by late and slower activation. Recent studies suggest that the early component represents features of the stimulus while the late component is associated with stimulus perception. Although very informative, these studies only focus on the amplitude of the evoked responses to study its relationship with sensory perception. In this work, we expand upon the study of how patterns of evoked and spontaneous activity are modified by experience at the mesoscale level using voltage and extracellular glutamate transient recordings over widespread regions of mouse dorsal neocortex. We find that repeated tactile or auditory stimulation selectively modifies the spatiotemporal patterns of cortical activity, mainly of the late evoked response in anesthetized mice injected with amphetamine and also in awake mice. This modification lasted up to 60 min and results in an increase in the amplitude of the late response after repeated stimulation and in an increase in the similarity between the spatiotemporal patterns of the late early evoked response. This similarity increase occurs only for the evoked responses of the sensory modality that received the repeated stimulation. Thus, this selective long-lasting spatiotemporal modification of the cortical activity patterns might provide evidence that evoked responses are a cortex-wide phenomenon. This work opens new questions about how perception-related cortical activity changes with sensory experience across the cortex.

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