title: Suppressive competition: how sounds may cheat sight.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Iurilli et al. (2012) demonstrate that auditory cortex activation directly engages local GABAergic circuits in V1 to induce sound-driven hyperpolarizations in layer 2/3 and layer 6 pyramidal neurons. Thereby, sounds can directly suppress V1 activity and visual driven behavior.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. kayser@tuebingen.mpg.de
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kayser
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Remedios