title: Emergent selectivity for task-relevant stimuli in higher-order auditory cortex.
abstract: A variety of attention-related effects have been demonstrated in primary auditory cortex (A1). However, an understanding of the functional role of higher auditory cortical areas in guiding attention to acoustic stimuli has been elusive. We recorded from neurons in two tonotopic cortical belt areas in the dorsal posterior ectosylvian gyrus (dPEG) of ferrets trained on a simple auditory discrimination task. Neurons in dPEG showed similar basic auditory tuning properties to A1, but during behavior we observed marked differences between these areas. In the belt areas, changes in neuronal firing rate and response dynamics greatly enhanced responses to target stimuli relative to distractors, allowing for greater attentional selection during active listening. Consistent with existing anatomical evidence, the pattern of sensory tuning and behavioral modulation in auditory belt cortex links the spectrotemporal representation of the whole acoustic scene in A1 to a more abstracted representation of task-relevant stimuli observed in frontal cortex.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; BRAMS, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QE H3A 2B4, Canada.
authors.forename: Serin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Atiani
authors.affiliation: Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: David
authors.affiliation: Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Elgueda
authors.affiliation: Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Locastro
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology, Biocenter of Ludwig Maximilians University, 80539 Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Radtke-Schuller
authors.affiliation: Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Department of Cognitive Studies, École Normale Supérieure, 75014 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Shihab A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Shamma
authors.affiliation: Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. Electronic address: ripple@isr.umd.edu.
authors.forename: Jonathan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Fritz
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003214:Conditioning, Classical / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005289:Ferrets; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D014851:Wakefulness
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