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Volume 16, Number 14, Issue of July 15, 1996 pp. 4420-4437
Copyright ©1996 Society for NeuroscienceThe Structure of Spatial Receptive Fields of Neurons in Primary Auditory Cortex of the Cat
Received Jan. 25, 1996; revised April 24, 1996; accepted April 26, 1996.
John F. Brugge, Richard A. Reale, and Joseph E. Hind Department of Neurophysiology and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Transient broad-band stimuli that mimic in their spectrum and time waveform sounds arriving from a speaker in free space were delivered to the tympanic membranes of barbiturized cats via sealed and calibrated earphones. The full array of such signals constitutes a virtual acoustic space (VAS). The extracellular response to a single stimulus at each VAS direction, consisting of one or a few precisely time-locked spikes, was recorded from neurons in primary auditory cortex. Effective sound directions form a virtual space receptive field (VSRF). Near threshold, most VSRFs were confined to one quadrant of acoustic space and were located on or near the acoustic axis. Generally, VSRFs expanded monotonically with increases in stimulus intensity, with some occupying essentially all of the acoustic space. The VSRF was not homogeneous with respect to spike timing or firing strength. Typically, onset latency varied by as much as 4-5 msec across the VSRF. A substantial proportion of recorded cells exhibited a gradient of first-spike latency within the VSRF. Shortest latencies occupied a core of the VSRF, on or near the acoustic axis, with longer latency being represented progressively at directions more distant from the core. Remaining cells had VSRFs that exhibited no such gradient. The distribution of firing probability was mapped in those experiments in which multiple trials were carried out at each direction. For some cells there was a positive correlation between latency and firing probability.
Key words: AI; primary auditory cortex; sound localization; directional hearing; spatial receptive fields; virtual acoustic space; spatial hearing
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