title: Reward-dependent plasticity in the primary auditory cortex of adult monkeys trained to discriminate temporally modulated signals.
abstract: Adult owl monkeys were trained to detect an increase in the envelope frequency of a sinusoidally modulated 1-kHz tone. Detection was positively correlated with the magnitude of the change in the envelope frequency. Surprisingly, neuronal responses recorded in the primary auditory cortex of trained monkeys were globally suppressed by the modulated tone. However, the contrast in neuronal responsiveness to small increases versus large increases in envelope frequencies was actually enhanced in the trained animals. The results suggest behaviorally contingent inhibitory and excitatory processes that are modulated by the probability that a particular signal predicts a reward.
authors.affiliation: Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. beitel@phy.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Ralph E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Beitel
authors.forename: Christoph E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Schreiner
authors.forename: Steven W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: Xiaoqin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Merzenich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D000882:Haplorhini; D009042:Motivation; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity