期刊
NEUROREPORT
卷 33, 期 15, 页码 663-668出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000001830
关键词
central auditory system; medial geniculate nucleus; magnocellular; temporal processing; thalamus
资金
- National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute) [1R01EY028266]
This study found that there is a magnocellular division in the auditory relay in the thalamus, analogous to the magnocellular layers in the visual system. This division shows a strong preference for transient sounds, consistently across individuals, and constitutes an information stream specialized for encoding auditory dynamics.
We test the hypothesis that there exists a generalized magnocellular system in the brain optimized for temporal processing. In the visual system, it is well known that the magnocellular layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) are strongly activated by transients and quickly habituate. However, little is known about the perhaps analogous magnocellular division of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGN), the auditory relay in the thalamus. We measured the functional responses of the MGN in 11 subjects who passively listened to sustained and transient nonlinguistic sounds, using functional MRI. We observed that voxels in the ventromedial portion of the MGN, corresponding to the magnocellular division, exhibited a robust preference to transient sounds, consistently across subjects, whereas the remainder of the MGN did not discriminate between sustained and transient sounds. We conclude that the magnocellular neurons in the MGN parallel the magnocellular neurons in its visual counterpart, LGN, and constitute an information stream specialized for encoding auditory dynamics.
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