期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 41, 期 6, 页码 1301-1316出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2217-20.2020
关键词
amygdala; auditory; auditory cortex; decision-making; prefrontal cortex; selective listening
资金
- Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health [ZIA MH002928]
The study found that in a spatial selective listening task, primary auditory cortex (AC) encoded the cue and target characteristics before the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and the basolateral amygdala (BLA), and also encoded the monkey's choice at an earlier stage. The similarity between AC and dlPFC responses was eliminated during passive sensory stimulation, suggesting that the strong sensory encoding in dlPFC is contextually gated. The study suggests that unlike in the visual domain, the BLA does not appear to be robustly involved in selective spatial processing in this auditory task.
Spatial selective listening and auditory choice underlie important processes including attending to a speaker at a cocktail party and knowing how (or whether) to respond. To examine task encoding and the relative timing of potential neural substrates underlying these behaviors, we developed a spatial selective detection paradigm for monkeys, and recorded activity in primary auditory cortex (AC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), and the basolateral amygdala (BLA). A comparison of neural responses among these three areas showed that, as expected, AC encoded the side of the cue and target characteristics before dlPFC and BLA. Interestingly, AC also encoded the choice of the monkey before dlPFC and around the time of BLA. Generally, BLA showed weak responses to all task features except the choice. Decoding analyses suggested that errors followed from a failure to encode the target stimulus in both AC and dlPFC, but again, these differences arose earlier in AC. The similarities between AC and dlPFC responses were abolished during passive sensory stimulation with identical trial conditions, suggesting that the robust sensory encoding in dlPFC is contextually gated. Thus, counter to a strictly PFC-driven decision process, in this spatial selective listening task AC neural activity represents the sensory and decision information before dlPFC. Unlike in the visual domain, in this auditory task, the BLA does not appear to be robustly involved in selective spatial processing.
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