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The Journal of Neuroscience, November 5, 2008, 28(45):11615-11621; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3972-08.2008
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Corticofugal Modulation of Initial Sound Processing in the Brain
Feng Luo, Qianzhou Wang, Alireza Kashani, andJun Yan Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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Introduction
The brain selectively extracts the most relevant information in top-down processing manner. Does the corticofugal system, a "back projection system," constitute the neural basis of such top-down selection? Here, we show how focal activation of the auditory cortex with 500 nA electrical pulses influences the auditory information processing in the cochlear nucleus (CN) that receives almost unprocessed information directly from the ear. We found that cortical activation increased the response magnitudes and shortened response latencies of physiologically matched CN neurons, whereas decreased response magnitudes and lengthened response latencies of unmatched CN neurons. In addition, cortical activation shifted the frequency tunings of unmatched CN neurons toward those of the activated cortical neurons. Our data suggest that cortical activation selectively enhances the neural processing of particular auditory information and attenuates others at the first processing level in the brain based on sound frequencies encoded in the auditory cortex. The auditory cortex apparently implements a long-range feedback mechanism to select or filter incoming signals from the ear.
Key words: auditory cortex; corticofugal; cochlear nucleus; neural plasticity; neurophysiology; mouse
Introduction
Hearing in nature encounters noisy environment (Feng and Ratnam, 2000). Behavioral studies from the 1950s have described the brain's automatic selection of sound; one is able to selectively listen to one sound and reject or attenuate the perception of others (Broadbent, 1952
The corticofugal system is a back projection system capable of providing top-down information flow. There are six hierarchical information processing levels in the central auditory system. The highest level is the auditory cortex where the learned or experienced sounds are registered (Edeline et al., 1993
Many studies in the visual, auditory and somatosensory systems have unveiled that sensory cortices differentially modulate subcortical neuron activities in a highly specific manner (Sillito et al., 1994
Materials and Methods
The impact of the auditory cortex on the auditory information processing in the CN was examined by observing the changes of auditory responses and frequency tunings of CN neurons after focal electrical stimulation (ES) of the primary auditory cortex (Fig. 1A). Forty-one female C57 mice (Charles River Laboratories) aged 4–7 weeks and weighing 14.6–24.0 g were used in this study. Animal preparation, acoustic stimulation, electrical stimulation of the auditory cortex, recording of action potentials and data processing were mostly the same as those described previously (Yan and Ehret, 2002
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Figure 1. A, A schematic drawing of the mouse brain, including the corticofugal projection to CN as indicated by a solid dark line, and the sites of electrical stimulation and recording. B, Photomicrograph of the coronal section of the right brainstem at 5.5 mm posterior to the bregma. C, Magnification of the area in a rectangle in B. A lesion site can be seen at the anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) as indicated by an arrowhead. AC, Auditory cortex; IC, inferior colliculus, MGB, medial geniculate body; MVN, medial vestibular nucleus; STN, spinal trigeminal nucleus; 4V, fourth ventricle; 5N, facial nucleus.
Animal preparation. Under anesthesia with a mixture of ketamine (85 mg/kg, i.p.) and xylazine (15 mg/kg, i.p.), the mouse's head was fixed in a custom-made head holder by rigidly clamping between the palate and nasal/frontal bones. The mouth bar was adjusted to align the bregma andpoints of the skull in one horizontal plane. The scalp was incised along the midline and subcutaneous tissue and muscle were removed to expose the skull. Two holes measuring 2 mm in diameter were drilled in the skull to expose the right cerebellum above the CN (5.1–5.6 mm posterior to bregma, 2.3–2.8 mm lateral to the midline) and the left auditory cortex. The right CN and left auditory cortex were selected because the ascending auditory pathway runs from the CN to the contralateral cortex. During surgery and all recording sessions, the animal's body temperature was maintained at 37°C by a feedback-controlled heating pad. Anesthetic levels were maintained by additional doses of ketamine (17 mg/kg, i.p.) and xylazine (3 mg/kg, i.p.) when the animal exhibited responses to tail pinching. All experiments were performed in a soundproof chamber.
Acoustic stimulation. Tone bursts (60 ms duration with 5 ms rise and fall times) were used as acoustic stimuli. They were digitally synthesized and then converted into analog sinusoidal waves by an Enhanced Real-time Processor (RP2; Tucker-Davis Technologies). The signals were then fed to a tweeter via a digital attenuator (PA5) and power amplifier. The output amplitude of the tone bursts was expressed as decibel sound pressure level (dB SPL, ref. 20 µPa). The tweeter was placed 45° to the right of and 130 cm away from the mouse's right ear. During calibration, the tweeter was driven by 20 volt sinusoidal peak-to-peak bursts without attenuation. The amplitudes of tone bursts were measured and calibrated at the position of animal right ear with a condenser microphone (Model 2520; Larson-Davis Laboratories) and a microphone preamplifier (Model 2200C; Larson-Davis Laboratories). Frequencies and intensities of tone bursts were varied either manually or automatically with BrainWare software (Tucker-Davis Technologies).
Recording and electrical stimulation in the primary auditory cortex. A tungsten electrode of
impedance was advanced, perpendicularly to the surface of the auditory cortex. The electrode was initially connected to the recording system. Signals recorded with the electrode were fed to a 16-channel preamplifier and were then amplified 10,000 times and filtered with a bandpass of 0.3–10 kHz with a RA16 module (Tucker-Davis Technologies). The output signals were observed on the oscilloscope and computer screen. During the electrode penetration, a tone burst with manual alteration of its frequency and amplitude was continuously delivered at a rate of 1 per second. Tone-evoked action potentials were frequently found at
Recording in the CN. Two tungsten electrodes of
Experimental protocols. Once the BFs and minimum thresholds of CN neurons were measured, two experimental protocols were applied to evaluate the influence of the cortex on the activities of CN neurons.
One emphasized or highlighted how fast the changes were in CN auditory responses and how the response latency of the CN neuron was affected after cortical stimulation. In this protocol, a series of tone bursts separated by 500 ms was delivered to obtain frequency-dependent responses of recorded CN neurons. The tone frequency varied from 5 kHz below to 5 kHz above the BFs of given CN neurons with a 1 kHz increment. The tone amplitude was set at the minimum thresholds of given CN neurons so that neurons could only show responses to a few tone frequencies before cortical stimulation. A series of tone bursts was delivered every 10 s. The responses of CN neurons to the first 50 trials were recorded as control data. Starting from the 51st trial, a single electrical pulse was delivered to the primary auditory cortex 500 ms before the onset of the first tone burst. After 250 trials, the ES stopped but the tone bursts were continuously delivered until the ES-evoked changes in the auditory responses of CN neurons were recovered.
The second protocol focused on the frequency-dependent changes in CN auditory responses after cortical stimulation. Because this protocol was identical to what was used in our previous studies (Yan and Ehret, 2002
Data processing. Single-unit action potentials were isolated from the multiunit recording according to eight parameters of the waveform of action potentials; these parameters were peak, valley, spike height, spike width, peak time, valley time and two user-defined voltage values. The evaluated data included only neurons with stable spike waveforms over the entire recording session. Single-unit responses to a series of tone bursts were eventually displayed by dot rasters or peristimulus time histograms with a bin width of 1 ms.
In protocol one, the response latency, first-spike latency, and spike numbers were calculated based on 1 min time window (six-tone stimuli). The response latency of CN neurons was the average latency of all spikes, the first spike latency was the average latency of all first spikes and spike number was the count of spikes within the time window.
In protocol two, the excitatory frequency-response curve was derived from the response magnitudes of a neuron to a series of tone bursts.
Histology. On completion of the recording session, a 20-s-long and 1 mA electrical current was applied to the recording site in the CN through the recording and indifferent electrodes. The animal was given a cardiac perfusion with 10 ml of physiological saline and a mixture of 4% paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer of pH 7.4. The brain was then removed from the cranium, fixed by immersion in 4% paraformaldehyde in a 0.1 M phosphate buffer and stored in phosphate buffered saline solution containing 20% sucrose at 4°C. After the brain was embedded with OCT (optimal cutting temperature) compound and frozen in 2-methylbutane, 40 µm coronal brainstem sections were made with a cryostat. The tissue sections were mounted onto glass slides and stained using the Nissl method. The electrolytic lesion was examined under a light microscope. An example is shown in Figure 1, B and C.
Statistics. Data were expressed as mean ± SD. A t test was used to compare the differences between groups of data and numbers. A p value of <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.
Results
We first examined the changes in response properties of CN neurons after focal ES of the auditory cortex in mice. Figure 2 shows an example of changes in responses of a CN neuron before, during and after the ES. This CN neuron originally showed strong response to a 9 kHz tone burst but no response to other tones including a 10 kHz tone burst (Fig. 2A, dots above zero). When 12-kHz-tuned cortical neurons were electrically stimulated, however, the response of this CN neuron to a 9 kHz tone burst gradually decreased and finally ceased. In contrast, its response to a 10 kHz tone burst emerged (Fig. 2A). The buildup of the response to the 10 kHz tone burst was closely observed. This CN neuron exhibited its first spike in response to the 10 kHz tone burst at the 12th cortical stimulus (120 s after the first ES). From the 12th stimulus to the 120th stimulus (first 20 min of ES), the number of spikes of this neuron in response to the 10 kHz tone burst gradually increased with extremely long spike latencies. After the 120th stimulus (20 min), this neuron showed much stronger response with greatly reduced response spike latencies (Fig. 2B). The changes in response latencies are quantified in Figure 2C in which the average latency of all spikes in a 1 min (six cortical stimuli) time window was calculated. The change in auditory response of this neuron slowly disappeared after the cessation of ES as shown in Figure 1D in which the average spike numbers in 1 min (six cortical stimuli) time windows were calculated. At 20 min after ES (120 cortical stimuli), this neuron showed equal response magnitudes to 9 kHz and 10 kHz. From this time point, the spike number in response to 10 kHz exceeded that to 9 kHz. As a result, the BF of this CN neuron shifted from 9 kHz to 10 kHz, i.e., toward the 12 kHz, the BF of the stimulated cortical neurons. The response to 9 kHz tended to cease at 31 min after the onset of ES (186 cortical stimuli). The responses of this neuron to 9 kHz and 10 kHz recovered at 158 min after the onset of ES (108 min after the cessation of ES).
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Figure 2. A, Raster plotting of a typical change in auditory responses of a CN neuron before, during, and after ES. B, Magnification of the gray box in A, the initial development of the neuronal responses of this neuron to 10 kHz tone during ES. C, The change in the average latency is quantitatively illustrated. D, The time courses of changes in response magnitudes of this neuron to both 9 and 10 kHz tones. The asterisk indicates the best frequency of the stimulated cortical neurons.
Using the same procedure, we studied seven CN neurons in which the BFs were <1 kHz away from those of stimulated cortical neurons and another seven CN neurons in which the BFs were >1 kHz away from those of the stimulated cortical neurons. For simplicity, we called the former physiologically matched neurons and the latter physiologically unmatched neurons. Without exception, ES facilitated the auditory responses of matched CN neurons and suppressed those of unmatched CN neurons. In addition, the BFs of the unmatched neurons shifted toward the BFs of the stimulated cortical neurons (Fig. 2). Such BF-related changes in auditory response magnitudes and BFs of CN neurons will be addressed later with a procedure used in our previous studies (Yan and Ehret, 2002The data presented in Figure 2 also shows two additional phenomena. One is that the response latency increased at 9 kHz but decreased at 10 kHz after ES (Fig. 2A). The other is that the latency of ES-evoked changes in response magnitude was clearly shorter to the 10 kHz than to 9 kHz (Fig. 2D). This confirms that ES-evoked facilitation occurred more rapidly and was accompanied with a reduced response latency, whereas ES-evoked inhibition occurred at a later period, accompanied by an increased response latency. It was uncertain whether or not these two phenomena were applicable to the ES-evoked facilitation of the auditory responses of matched neurons and inhibition of unmatched neurons. To clarify this issue, the first-spike latencies of the recorded CN neurons were calculated in 1 min (six stimuli) time windows before, during and after the ES. Our data demonstrated that the averaged first-spike latency of seven matched neurons gradually decreased (Fig. 3A) and that of seven unmatched neurons gradually increased (Fig. 3B) until the cessation of the ES.
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Figure 3. A, B, Changes in first spike latencies of matched (A) and unmatched (B) CN neurons as the function of time from the onset of ES.
We next calculated the periods of time required for a 10% change, the maximum change and a 50% recovery in the response magnitudes of CN neurons after the ES (Fig. 4). The time required for a 10% increase in the auditory response magnitudes of matched neurons was 2.6 ± 3.8 min (n = 7), which was significantly shorter than 14.6 ± 12.8 min (n = 7), the time required for a 10% decrease in response magnitudes of unmatched neurons (p < 0.05). The times of maximum change and 50% recovery were 54.7 ± 14.7 min and 93.0 ± 32.7 min (n = 7) for matched neurons, which were similar to 45.3 ± 22.9 min and 94.7 ± 43.0 min (n = 7) for unmatched neurons (p > 0.05). The ES influence occurred significantly earlier on matched CN neurons than that on unmatched ones.
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Figure 4. Time required for 10% change, maximum changes, and 50% recovery in response magnitudes of the matched and unmatched neurons after ES. *p < 0.05, when matched and unmatched neurons were compared.
To obtain comparable data regarding the frequency-specific changes in auditory response magnitudes and BFs of CN neurons, we measured frequency response curves (receptive fields) of 55 CN neurons before and after the ES by using our second protocol.Three examples in Figure 5 show how ES changed the frequency tunings of CN neurons. In Figure 5A, the BFs of both cortical and CN neurons were 15 kHz. The ES augmented the auditory responses but did not alter the BF of this CN neuron. Figure 5B shows that the BF of this CN neuron shifted from 17 to 19 kHz after 22-kHz-tuned cortical neurons were stimulated, which resulted from the inhibition of the responses to tone bursts <18 kHz and the facilitation of the responses to tone bursts >18 kHz (Fig. 5B3). The overall response magnitude of this neuron was suppressed; the spike number in the peak response to 17 kHz tone bursts before the ES was larger than that to 19 kHz tone bursts after the ES. In contrast, the neuron in Figure 5C shifted its BF from 16 kHz down to 13 kHz after an 11-kHz-tuned cortical neurons were stimulated, which resulted from the inhibition of responses to tone bursts >15 kHz and the facilitation of responses to tone bursts <15 kHz (Fig. 5C3). These examples clearly demonstrate that the ES could lead to completely different changes in auditory response magnitudes and frequency tunings of CN neurons, i.e., either the facilitation or inhibition as well as BF changes in either direction that were largely dependent on the BFs of the stimulated cortical neurons.
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Figure 5. Three examples of the ES effects on frequency tunings of CN neurons. A–C, The ES did not change the BF but augmented the auditory responses of the matched CN neurons (A), whereas the ES shifted the BFs of the unmatched CN neurons toward the cortical BF (B, C). The shift of BFs resulted from differential facilitation and inhibition (B3, C3). The gray bars in the top two panels represent the BFs of the stimulated cortical neurons. In the bottom, the dark gray area represents inhibition, whereas the light gray area represents facilitation.
Analysis of all 55 neurons confirmed that the ES-evoked changes in response magnitudes of CN neurons were closely related to the BF differences between the stimulated cortical and the recorded CN neurons. After the ES, the auditory response magnitudes of CN neurons increased when the BF differences between the cortical and CN neurons were <1.0 kHz (matched neurons), whereas they decreased when the BF differences between the cortical and CN neurons were larger than 1.0 kHz (unmatched neurons). On the average, the response magnitude of matched neurons increased by 2.2 ± 10.1% and those of unmatched neurons decreased by 17.9 ± 14.5% when CN BFs were higher than cortical BF and by 19.8 ± 15.1% when CN BFs were lower than cortical BF (Fig. 6A). The ES-evoked changes in response magnitude were significantly different between matched and unmatched CN neurons (p < 0.001). The ES-evoked BF shifts of CN neurons were also correlated to the stimulated cortical BFs (Fig. 6B). For unmatched CN neurons, ES shifted CN BFs either higher or lower depending on the BFs of the stimulated cortical neurons. This was particularly the case when the BF differences between cortical and CN neurons ranged from –5 to 7 kHz. In other words, ES shifted CN BFs toward the BFs of the stimulated cortical neurons. However, ES did not alter the BFs of matched CN neurons.
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Figure 6. A, B, ES-evoked changes in response magnitudes (A) and BFs (B) of CN neurons as the function of BF difference between the stimulated cortical and recorded CN neurons. These changes were clearly different between the matched and unmatched CN neurons. The gray boxes and bars in A represent the mean ± SD of BF shifts of all neurons in its representing range of BF difference, and the line in B is regression line.
Discussion
Our data clearly suggest that the auditory cortex specifically modulates the neural processing of auditory information in the cochlear nucleus in two ways. One is that cortical stimulation increased the auditory responses and shortened response latencies of the matched CN neurons but decreased and lengthened those of the unmatched neurons. The second involves the enhancement of the CN representation of the sound frequencies that are emphasized in the auditory cortex, i.e., the shift of the BFs of unmatched CN neurons toward those of the activated cortical neurons. These findings support a recent report that musical experience enhanced human brainstem encoding of linguistic pitch presumably via corticofugal feedback (Wong et al., 2007With all of these findings considered, a framework of a physiological model of top-down selection emerges in the central auditory system. The auditory cortex is an adaptive processor of auditory experience and learning (Dahmen and King, 2007
There are three fundamental requirements for the selective sound processing for hearing in nature. First of all, selective processing is directed by higher-order information processes. This requires a top-down mechanism that compares the registered information with incoming signals. Only the matched signal is selected and amplified, whereas others are suppressed (Cherry, 1953
Footnotes
Received Aug. 20, 2008; revised Sept. 29, 2008; accepted Oct. 1, 2008.This work was supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Hearing Foundation of Canada, the Campbell McLaurin Chair for Hearing Deficiencies of the University of Calgary, and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. We thank Drs. Jos J. Eggermont, Douglas Zochodne, and Robert J. McDonald for their helpful comments on the previous version of this manuscript.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Jun Yan, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1. Email: juyan{at}ucalgary.ca
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