Journal
BRAIN TOPOGRAPHY
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 401-410Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-014-0359-5
Keywords
Auditory cortex; First spike latency; Local field potentials; Temporal coherence; Learning; Plasticity
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- Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE) [121803022]
- KAKENHI [25135710]
- Aihara Innovative Mathematical Modelling Project
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP)
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Temporal coherence among neural populations may contribute importantly to signal encoding, specifically by providing an optimal tradeoff between encoding reliability and efficiency. Here, we considered the possibility that learning modulates the temporal coherence among neural populations in association with well-characterized map plasticity. We previously demonstrated that, in appetitive operant conditioning tasks, the tone-responsive area globally expanded during the early stage of learning, but shrank during the late stage. The present study further showed that phase locking of the first spike to band-specific oscillations of local field potentials (LFPs) significantly increased during the early stage of learning but decreased during the late stage, suggesting that neurons in A1 were more synchronously activated during early learning, whereas they were more asynchronously activated once learning was completed. Furthermore, LFP amplitudes increased during early learning but decreased during later learning. These results suggest that, compared to na < ve encoding, early-stage encoding is more reliable but energy-consumptive, whereas late-stage encoding is more energetically efficient. Such a learning-stage-dependent encoding strategy may underlie learning-induced, non-monotonic map plasticity. Accumulating evidence indicates that the cholinergic system is likely to be a shared neural substrate of the processes for perceptual learning and attention, both of which modulate neural encoding in an adaptive manner. Thus, a better understanding of the links between map plasticity and modulation of temporal coherence will likely lead to a more integrated view of learning and attention.
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