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CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 166-177Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq073
Keywords
anesthesia; cortical hierarchy; cortical organization; spatiotemporal pattern; traveling wave
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Kr 3370/1-1, 1-2]
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Central processing of acoustic signals is assumed to take place in a stereotypical spatial and temporal pattern involving different fields of auditory cortex. So far, cortical propagating waves representing such patterns have mainly been demonstrated by optical imaging, repeatedly in the visual and somatosensory cortex. In this study, the surface of rat auditory cortex was mapped by recording local field potentials (LFPs) in response to a broadband acoustic stimulus. From the peak amplitudes of LFPs, cortical activation maps were constructed over 4 cortical auditory fields. Whereas response onset had same latencies across primary auditory field (A1), anterior auditory field (AAF), and ventral auditory field and longer latencies in posterior auditory field, activation maps revealed a reproducible wavelike pattern of activity propagating for similar to 45 ms poststimulus through all cortical fields. The movement observed started with 2 waves within the primary auditory fields A1 and AAF moving from ventral to dorsal followed by a motion from rostral to caudal, passing continuously through higher-order fields. The pattern of propagating waves was well reproducible and showed only minor changes if different anesthetics were used. The results question the classical hierarchical model of cortical areas and demonstrate that the different fields process incoming information as a functional unit.
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