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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 30, 期 3, 页码 802-819出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1964-09.2010
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资金
- National Science Foundation [IOS-0620560, IOS-0920060]
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience [IIS-0827722]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [0827722] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
An important question in sensory neuroscience is what coding strategies and mechanisms are used by the brain to detect and discriminate among behaviorally relevant stimuli. There is evidence that sensory systems migrate from a distributed and redundant encoding strategy at the periphery to a more heterogeneous encoding in cortical structures. It has been hypothesized that heterogeneity is an efficient encoding strategy that minimizes the redundancy of the neural code and maximizes information throughput. Evidence of this mechanism has been documented in cortical structures. In this study, we examined whether heterogeneous encoding of complex sounds contributes to efficient encoding in the auditory midbrain by characterizing neural responses to behaviorally relevant vocalizations in the mouse inferior colliculus (IC). We independently manipulated the frequency, amplitude, duration, and harmonic structure of the vocalizations to create a suite of modified vocalizations. Based on measures of both spike rate and timing, we characterized the heterogeneity of neural responses to the natural vocalizations and their perturbed variants. Using information theoretic measures, we found that heterogeneous response properties of IC neurons contribute to efficient encoding of behaviorally relevant vocalizations.
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