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BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 136, 期 1, 页码 185-191出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00129-8
关键词
zebra finch; auditory; contextual modulation; caudomedial neostriatum; immediate early gene; zenk; sound envelope; spectral content
Zebra finches respond to certain auditory stimuli with the activation of the immediate early gene zenk. It has been shown that the amount of sound-mediated zenk gene expression varies in the zebra finch caudomedial neostriatum (NCM), apparently correlated with stimulus type (conspecific > heterospecific > noise > tones) and familiarity. Here we tested the impact of two additional factors - song- specific acoustical properties and testing conditions-on the specificity of the sound-mediated zenk response, as assessed by in situ hybridization. A variant of a normal conspecific song was first produced by randomizing the spectral content while retaining the amplitude envelope ('song-enveloped noise'). This stimulus and related controls were presented to birds which were either free in cages or restrained in a stereotaxic instrument, after isolation either overnight or for only 1 h prior to testing. We confirmed prior results that unrestrained birds show a greater zenk response to normal conspecific song than to other acoustic stimuli. However, under restraint, birds showed little or no selectivity for conspecific song compared to matched stimuli lacking a song organization. Thus the specificity of the zenk response to song is not determined simply by the acoustic structure and familiarity of the stimulus. We conclude that the intrinsic selectivity of sensory responses measured in the CNS may be influenced by factors associated with attention, arousal or vigilance, and may be significantly altered by experimental conditions that involve physical restraint. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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