Neural response characteristics in auditory cortex of the awake ferret

We are developing an awake preparation for chronic physiological recording in the ferret. In this talk, we describe neural responses in auditory cortex in the restrained preparation to a variety of acoustic stimuli including tones, noise, auditory gratings, and their combinations. We characterize po...

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Published in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2002-11, Vol.112 (5_Supplement), p.2287-2287
Main Authors: Depireux, Didier A., Chen, Bing-Zhong, Marvit, Peter, Li, Yaan
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Language:English
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Summary:We are developing an awake preparation for chronic physiological recording in the ferret. In this talk, we describe neural responses in auditory cortex in the restrained preparation to a variety of acoustic stimuli including tones, noise, auditory gratings, and their combinations. We characterize population responses, show how the cells properties change as a function of the stimulus (e.g., how the receptive field of a cell changes, depending on whether the carrier under the gratings spectral envelope is a harmonic complex or noise) and correlated the activity of single units from neighboring cells in a cortical column in response to these stimuli. [Work supported in part by NIH Grant No. R01 DC05019-01A1 and a training grant to the Program in Neuroscience at UMAB.]
ISSN:0001-4966
1520-8524
DOI:10.1121/1.4779187