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The Journal of Neuroscience, August 4, 2004, 24(31):6853-6861; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0480-04.2004

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Development/Plasticity/Repair
Multiple Sites of Adaptive Plasticity in the Owl's Auditory Localization Pathway

William M. DeBello^1,2 and Eric I. Knudsen¹

¹Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5125, and ²Center for Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California-Davis, Davis, California 95616

In the midbrain auditory localization pathway of the barn owl, a map of auditory space is relayed from the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICX) to the deep and intermediate layers of the optic tectum (OT) and from these layers to the superficial layers. Within the OT, the auditory space map aligns with a visual map of space. Raising young barn owls with a prismatic displacement of the visual field leads to progressive changes in auditory tuning in the OT that tend to realign the auditory space map with the prismatically displaced visual space map. The only known site of this adaptive plasticity is in the ICX, in which the auditory system first creates a map of space. In this study, we identified an additional site of plasticity in the OT. In owls that experienced prisms beginning late in the juvenile period, adaptive shifts in auditory tuning in the superficial layers of the OT exceeded the adaptive shifts that occurred in the deep layers of the OT or in the ICX. Anatomical results from these owls demonstrated that the topography of intrinsic OT connections was systematically altered in the adaptive direction. In juvenile owls, plasticity in the OT increased as plasticity in the ICX decreased. Because plasticity at both sites has been shown to decline substantially in adults, these results suggest that an age-dependent decrease in auditory map plasticity occurs first in the ICX and later at the higher level, in the OT.

Key words: binaural cues; experience; juvenile; prisms; retrograde labeling; sensitive period

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Received Feb 10, 2004; revised June 8, 2004; accepted June 10, 2004.

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