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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 4, 298-308, Copyright © 1984 by Society for Neuroscience

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Effects of reaction time performance on single-unit activity in the central auditory pathway of the rhesus macaque

AF Ryan, JM Miller, BE Pfingst and GK Martin

The activity of single units at various locations in the central auditory pathway of rhesus macaques was recorded during the monkeys' performance and nonperformance in an auditory reaction time task. Evoked unit responses during performance were compared with those observed during passive delivery of identical stimuli. Single units were recorded from the cochlear nucleus, superior olivary complex, lateral lemniscus, inferior colliculus, medial geniculate nucleus, and auditory cortex. Significant effects of task performance on unit discharge patterns were observed at all levels of the central auditory pathway: Spontaneous discharge rates in the more peripheral auditory nuclei tended to be higher during performance. Evoked discharge that occurred relatively late during a stimulus presentation (greater than 75 msec after stimulus onset) was increased during performance, compared with the nonperformance condition, in nuclei above the cochlear nucleus. The initial latency of evoked discharge was increased during performance for subcortical nuclei but was decreased for units in auditory cortex. These results suggest that the effects of performance may be mediated by a tonic increase in the excitability of auditory units which operates primarily at peripheral auditory stations, and a descending, stimulus-evoked increase in excitability which primarily influences the cells of higher auditory nuclei. At the cortical level, these changes lead to increased signal-to-noise ratio of the evoked response during performance in the auditory task.

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