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Extra-Classical Tuning Predicts Stimulus-Dependent Receptive Fields in Auditory Neurons

David M. Schneider and Sarah M. N. Woolley
Journal of Neuroscience 17 August 2011, 31 (33) 11867-11878; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5790-10.2011
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The receptive fields of many sensory neurons are sensitive to statistical differences among classes of complex stimuli. For example, excitatory spectral bandwidths of midbrain auditory neurons and the spatial extent of cortical visual neurons differ during the processing of natural stimuli compared to the processing of artificial stimuli. Experimentally characterizing neuronal nonlinearities that contribute to stimulus-dependent receptive fields is important for understanding how neurons respond to different stimulus classes in multiple sensory modalities. Here we show that in the zebra finch, many auditory midbrain neurons have extra-classical receptive fields, consisting of sideband excitation and sideband inhibition. We also show that the presence, degree, and asymmetry of stimulus-dependent receptive fields during the processing of complex sounds are predicted by the presence, valence, and asymmetry of extra-classical tuning. Neurons for which excitatory bandwidth expands during the processing of song have extra-classical excitation. Neurons for which frequency tuning is static and for which excitatory bandwidth contracts during the processing of song have extra-classical inhibition. Simulation experiments further demonstrate that stimulus-dependent receptive fields can arise from extra-classical tuning with a static spike threshold nonlinearity. These findings demonstrate that a common neuronal nonlinearity can account for the stimulus dependence of receptive fields estimated from the responses of auditory neurons to stimuli with natural and non-natural statistics.

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Extra-Classical Tuning Predicts Stimulus-Dependent Receptive Fields in Auditory Neurons
David M. Schneider, Sarah M. N. Woolley
Journal of Neuroscience 17 August 2011, 31 (33) 11867-11878; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5790-10.2011

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Journal of Neuroscience 17 August 2011, 31 (33) 11867-11878; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5790-10.2011
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