title: Tuning bat LSO neurons to interaural intensity differences through spike-timing dependent plasticity.
abstract: Bats, like other mammals, are known to use interaural intensity differences (IID) to determine azimuthal position. In the lateral superior olive (LSO) neurons have firing behaviors which vary systematically with IID. Those neurons receive excitatory inputs from the ipsilateral ear and inhibitory inputs from the contralateral one. The IID sensitivity of a LSO neuron is thought to be due to delay differences between the signals coming from both ears, differences due to different synaptic delays and to intensity-dependent delays. In this paper we model the auditory pathway until the LSO. We propose a learning scheme where inputs to LSO neurons start out numerous with different relative delays. Spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) is then used to prune those connections. We compare the pruned neuron responses with physiological data and analyse the relationship between IID's of teacher stimuli and IID sensitivities of trained LSO neurons.
authors: Bertrand
authors: B
authors: Fontaine
authors: Herbert
authors: H
authors: Peremans
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004455:Echolocation / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009847:Olivary Nucleus / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D011149:Pons / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors