Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience pp 1–16Cite as

Auditory Thalamocortical Transformations

  • Living reference work entry
  • Latest version View entry history
  • First Online:

  • 425 Accesses

Definition

Auditory thalamocortical transformations arise from the ascending neural processing of spontaneous activity as well as external sound-evoked activity from the auditory thalamus, the medial geniculate body, to the thalamorecipient layers of the auditory cortex in mammals.

Detailed Description

Thalamic and Cortical Organization

The Thalamus

The thalamus is the obligate neural station conveying ascending sensory information to the cortex (Sherman and Guillery 2006; Jones 2007). Each sensory modality, except for olfaction, is represented in defined nuclei of the thalamus through which sensory information must first be processed before eventually being transmitted to the respective sensory areas of the neocortex (Sherman and Guillery 2006; Jones 2007). In the auditory system, the medial geniculate body is the main auditory thalamic nucleus (Winer 1984; Jones 2007). Classically, the medial geniculate body has been divided into three main subdivisions, i.e., the ventral division,...

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

References

  • Anderson LA, Linden JF (2011) Physiological differences between histologically defined subdivisions in the mouse auditory thalamus. Hear Res 274:48–60

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Anderson LA, Malmierca MS, Wallace MN, Palmer AR (2006) Evidence for a direct, short latency projection from the dorsal cochlear nucleus to the auditory thalamus in the guinea pig. Eur J Neurosci 24:491–498

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bao S, Chang EF, Woods J, Merzenich MM (2004) Temporal plasticity in the primary auditory cortex induced by operant perceptual learning. Nat Neurosci 7:974–981

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bartlett EL, Smith PH (1999) Anatomic, intrinsic, and synaptic properties of dorsal and ventral division neurons in rat medial geniculate body. J Neurophysiol 81:1999–2013

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bartlett EL, Wang X (2007) Neural representations of temporally modulated signals in the auditory thalamus of awake primates. J Neurophysiol 97:1005–1017

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bartlett EL, Wang X (2011) Correlation of neural response properties with auditory thalamus subdivisions in the awake marmoset. J Neurophysiol 105:2647–2667

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bartlett EL, Sadagopan S, Wang X (2011) Fine frequency tuning in monkey auditory cortex and thalamus. J Neurophysiol 106:849–859

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Belin P, Zatorre RJ, Lafaille P, Ahad P, Pike B (2000) Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex. Nature 403:309–312

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bendor D, Wang X (2007) Differential neural coding of acoustic flutter within primate auditory cortex. Nat Neurosci 10:763–771

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bieser A, Muller-Preuss P (1996) Auditory responsive cortex in the squirrel monkey: neural responses to amplitude-modulated sounds. Exp Brain Res 108:273–284

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bitterman Y, Mukamel R, Malach R, Fried I, Nelken I (2008) Ultra-fine frequency tuning revealed in single neurons of human auditory cortex. Nature 451:197–201

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Nelken I, King AJ (2005) Functional organization of ferret auditory cortex. Cereb Cortex 15:1637–1653

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bordi F, LeDoux JE (1994) Response properties of single units in areas of rat auditory thalamus that project to the amygdala. II. Cells receiving convergent auditory and somatosensory inputs and cells antidromically activated by amygdala stimulation. Exp Brain Res 98:275–286

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bowman EM, Olson CR (1988) Visual and auditory association areas of the cat’s posterior ectosylvian gyrus: cortical afferents. J Comp Neurol 272:30–42

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Calford MB (1983) The parcellation of the medial geniculate body of the cat defined by the auditory response properties of single units. J Neurosci 3:2350–2364

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Chang EF, Bao S, Imaizumi K, Schreiner CE, Merzenich MM (2005) Development of spectral and temporal response selectivity in the auditory cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:16460–16465

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cheung SW, Bedenbaugh PH, Nagarajan SS, Schreiner CE (2001) Functional organization of squirrel monkey primary auditory cortex: responses to pure tones. J Neurophysiol 85:1732–1749

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Clarey JC, Irvine DRF (1990) The anterior ectosylvian sulcal auditory field in the cat: I. An electrophysiological study of its relation to surrounding auditory cortical fields. J Comp Neurol 301:289–303

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Clascá F, Llamas A, Reinoso-Suárez F (1997) Insular cortex and neighboring fields in the cat: a redefinition based on cortical microarchitecture and connections with the thalamus. J Comp Neurol 384:456–482

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Crabtree JW, Collingridge GL, Isaac JT (1998) A new intrathalamic pathway linking modality-related nuclei in the dorsal thalamus. Nat Neurosci 1:389–394

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Creutzfeldt O, Hellweg FC, Schreiner C (1980) Thalamocortical transformation of responses to complex auditory stimuli. Exp Brain Res 39:87–104

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • de la Mothe LA, Blumell S, Kajikawa Y, Hackett TA (2006) Thalamic connections of the auditory cortex in marmoset monkeys: core and medial belt regions. J Comp Neurol 496:72–96

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • De Ribaupierre F, Goldstein MH Jr, Yeni-Komshian G (1972) Cortical coding of repetitive acoustic pulses. Brain Res 48:205–225

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dear SP, Simmons JA, Fritz J (1993) A possible neuronal basis for representation of acoustic scenes in auditory cortex of the big brown bat. Nature 364:620–623

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dong C, Qin L, Liu Y, Zhang X, Sato Y (2011) Neural responses in the primary auditory cortex of freely behaving cats while discriminating fast and slow click-trains. PLoS One 6:e25895

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Edeline JM, Manunta Y, Nodal FR, Bajo VM (1999) Do auditory responses recorded from awake animals reflect the anatomical parcellation of the auditory thalamus? Hear Res 131:135–152

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Eggermont JJ (1998a) Azimuth coding in primary auditory cortex of the cat. II. Relative latency and interspike interval representation. J Neurophysiol 80:2151–2161

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Eggermont JJ (1998b) Representation of spectral and temporal sound features in three cortical fields of the cat. Similarities outweigh differences. J Neurophysiol 80:2743–2764

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Eggermont JJ (2000) Sound-induced synchronization of neural activity between and within three auditory cortical areas. J Neurophysiol 83:2708–2722

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Eggermont JJ (2001) Between sound and perception: reviewing the search for a neural code. Hear Res 157:1–42

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ehret G (1997) The auditory cortex. J Comp Physiol A 181:547–557

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Furukawa S, Xu L, Middlebrooks JC (2000) Coding of sound-source location by ensembles of cortical neurons. J Neurosci 20:1216–1228

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg JM, Brown PB (1969) Response of binaural neurons of dog superior olivary complex to dichotic tonal stimuli: some physiological mechanisms of sound localization. J Neurophysiol 32:613–636

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Goldstein MHJ, Kiang NYS, Brown RM (1959) Responses of the auditory cortex to repetitive acoustic stimuli. J Acoust Soc Am 31:356–364

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hackett TA (2011) Information flow in the auditory cortical network. Hear Res 27:133–146

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hackett TA, Stepniewska I, Kaas JH (1998) Subdivisions of auditory cortex and ipsilateral cortical connections of the parabelt auditory cortex in macaque monkeys. J Comp Neurol 394:475–495

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hackett TA, Barkat TR, O’Brien BM, Hensch TK, Polley DB (2011) Linking topography to tonotopy in the mouse auditory thalamocortical circuit. J Neurosci 31:2983–2995

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Heil P (1997) Auditory cortical onset responses revisited. I. First-spike timing. J Neurophysiol 77:2616–2641

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Huang CL, Winer JA (2000) Auditory thalamocortical projections in the cat: laminar and areal patterns of input. J Comp Neurol 427:302–331

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Imaizumi K, Schreiner CE (2007) Spatial interaction between spectral integration and frequency gradient in primary auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol 28:2933–2942

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Imaizumi K, Priebe NJ, Crum PAC, Bedenbaugh PH, Cheung SW, Schreiner CE (2004) Modular functional organization of cat anterior auditory field. J Neurophysiol 92:444–457

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Imaizumi K, Priebe NJ, Sharpee TO, Cheung SW, Schreiner CE (2010) Encoding of temporal information by timing, rate, and place in cat auditory cortex. PLoS One 5:e11531

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Imaizumi K, Priebe NJ, Cheung SW, Schreiner CE (2011) Spatial organization of repetition rate processing in cat anterior auditory field. Hear Res 280:70–81

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Imig TJ, Morel A (1985) Tonotopic organization in ventral nucleus of medial geniculate body in the cat. J Neurophysiol 53:309–340

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Jones EG (2007) The thalamus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Joris PX, Schreiner CE, Rees A (2004) Neural processing of amplitude-modulated sounds. Physiol Rev 84:541–577

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kaas JH (2008) The evolution of the complex sensory and motor systems of the human brain. Brain Res Bull 75:384–390

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kaas JH, Hackett TA (2000) Subdivisions of auditory cortex and processing streams in primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97:11793–11799

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kaur S, Lazar R, Metherate R (2004) Intracortical pathways determine breadth of subthreshold frequency receptive fields in primary auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol 91:2551–2567

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kaur S, Rose HJ, Lazar R, Liang K, Metherate R (2005) Spectral integration in primary auditory cortex: laminar processing of afferent input, in vivo and in vitro. Neuroscience 134:1033–1045

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kilgard MP, Merzenich MM (1998) Plasticity of temporal information processing in the primary auditory cortex. Nat Neurosci 1:727–731

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kilgard MP, Merzenich MM (1999) Distributed representation of spectral and temporal information in rat primary auditory cortex. Hear Res 134:16–28

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kishan AU, Lee CC, Winer JA (2008) Branched projections in the auditory thalamocortical and corticocortical systems. Neuroscience 154:283–293

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kishan AU, Lee CC, Winer JA (2011) Patterns of olivocochlear branches. Open J Neurosci 1:1–7

    Google Scholar 

  • Knight PL (1977) Representation of the cochlea within the anterior auditory field (AAF) of the cat. Brain Res 130:447–467

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lam YW, Sherman SM (2005) Mapping by laser photostimulation of connections between the thalamic reticular and ventral posterior lateral nuclei in the rat. J Neurophysiol 94:2472–2483

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lam YW, Sherman SM (2007) Different topography of the reticulothalamic inputs to first- and higher-order somatosensory thalamic relays revealed using photostimulation. J Neurophysiol 98:2903–2909

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lam YW, Sherman SM (2010) Functional organization of the somatosensory cortical layer 6 feedback to the thalamus. Cereb Cortex 20:13–24

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC (2013) Thalamic and cortical pathways supporting auditory processing. Brain Lang 126:22–28

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Imaizumi K (2013) Functional convergence of thalamic and intrinsic inputs in cortical layers 4 and 6. Neurophysiology 45:396–406

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Sherman SM (2008) Synaptic properties of thalamic and intracortical inputs to layer 4 of the first- and higher-order cortical areas in the auditory and somatosensory systems. J Neurophysiol 100:317–326

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Sherman SM (2011) On the classification of pathways in the auditory midbrain, thalamus, and cortex. Hear Res 276:79–87

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Winer JA (2005) Principles governing auditory cortex connections. Cereb Cortex 15:1804–1814

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Winer JA (2008a) Connections of cat auditory cortex: I. Thalamocortical system. J Comp Neurol 507:1879–1900

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Winer JA (2008b) Connections of cat auditory cortex: III. Corticocortical system. J Comp Neurol 507:1920–1943

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Winer JA (2011a) Convergence of thalamic and cortical pathways in cat auditory cortex. Hear Res 274:85–94

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Winer JA (2011b) A synthesis of auditory cortical connections: thalamocortical, commissural, and corticocortical systems. In: Winer JA, Schreiner CE (eds) The auditory cortex. Springer, New York, pp 147–170

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Imaizumi K, Schreiner CE, Winer JA (2004) Concurrent tonotopic processing streams in auditory cortex. Cereb Cortex 14:441–451

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lee CC, Kishan AU, Winer JA (2011) Wiring of divergent networks in the central auditory system. Front Neuroanat 5:46

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Liang L, Lu T, Wang X (2002) Neural representations of sinusoidal amplitude and frequency modulations in the primary auditory cortex of awake primates. J Neurophysiol 87:2237–2261

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Linden JF, Liu RC, Sahani M, Schreiner CE, Merzenich MM (2003) Spectrotemporal structure of receptive fields in areas AI and AAF of mouse auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol 90:2660–2675

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Liu BH, Wu GK, Arbuckle R, Tao HW, Zhang LI (2007) Defining cortical frequency tuning with recurrent excitatory circuitry. Nat Neurosci 10:1594–1600

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lomber SG, Malhotra S (2008) Double dissociation of ‘what’ and ‘where’ processing in auditory cortex. Nat Neurosci 11:609–616

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lu T, Wang X (2000) Temporal discharge patterns evoked by rapid sequences of wide- and narrowband clicks in the primary auditory cortex of cat. J Neurophysiol 84:236–246

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lu T, Liang L, Wang X (2001) Temporal and rate representations of time-varying signals in the auditory cortex of awake primates. Nat Neurosci 4:1131–1138

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ma L, Tai X, Su L, Shi L, Wang E, Qin L (2013) The neuronal responses to repetitive acoustic pulses in different fields of the auditory cortex of awake rats. PLoS One 8:e64288

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Malone BJ, Scott BH, Semple MN (2007) Dynamic amplitude coding in the auditory cortex of awake rhesus macaques. J Neurophysiol 98:1451–1474

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Malone BJ, Scott BH, Semple MN (2010) Temporal codes for amplitude contrast in auditory cortex. J Neurosci 30:767–784

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mardia KV (1972) Statistics of directional data. Academic, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller LM, Escabí MA, Read HL, Schreiner CE (2001) Functional convergence of response properties in the auditory thalamocortical system. Neuron 32:151–160

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Miller LM, Escabí MA, Read HL, Schreiner CE (2002) Spectrotemporal receptive fields in the lemniscal auditory thalamus and cortex. J Neurophysiol 87:516–527

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Morel A, Imig TJ (1987) Thalamic projections to fields A, AI, P, and VP in the cat auditory cortex. J Comp Neurol 265:119–144

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Morel A, Garraghty PE, Kaas JH (1993) Tonotopic organization, architectonic fields, and connections of auditory cortex in macaque monkeys. J Comp Neurol 335:437–459

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mountcastle VB (1997) The columnar organization of the neocortex. Brain 120:701–722

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Nagarajan SS, Cheung SW, Bedenbaugh P, Beitel RE, Schreiner CE, Merzenich MM (2002) Representation of spectral and temporal envelope of twitter vocalizations in common marmoset primary auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol 87:1723–1737

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Nieuwenhuys R (2013) The myeloarchitectonic studies on the human cerebral cortex of the Vogt-Vogt school, and their significance for the interpretation of functional neuroimaging data. Brain Struct Funct 218:303–352

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Niwa M, Johnson JS, O’Connor KN, Sutter ML (2012) Active engagement improves primary auditory cortical neurons’ ability to discriminate temporal modulation. J Neurosci 32:9323–9334

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Petkov CI, Kayser C, Steudel T, Whittingstall K, Augath M, Logothetis NK (2008) A voice region in the monkey brain. Nat Neurosci 11:367–374

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Philibert B, Beitel RE, Nagarajan SS, Bonham BH, Schreiner CE, Cheung SW (2005) Functional organization and hemispheric comparison of primary auditory cortex in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). J Comp Neurol 487:391–406

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pinault D (2004) The thalamic reticular nucleus: structure, function and concept. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 46:1–31

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Polley DB, Read HL, Storace DA, Merzenich MM (2007) Multiparametric auditory receptive field organization across five cortical fields in the albino rat. J Neurophysiol 97:3621–3638

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Poremba A, Malloy M, Saunders RC, Carson RE, Herscovitch P, Mishkin M (2004) Species-specific calls evoke asymmetric activity in the monkey’s temporal poles. Nature 427:448–451

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Preuss A, Muller-Preuss P (1990) Processing of amplitude modulated sounds in the medial geniculate body of squirrel monkeys. Exp Brain Res 79:207–211

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Read HL, Winer JA, Schreiner CE (2001) Modular organization of intrinsic connections associated with spectral tuning in cat auditory cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:8042–8047

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Reale RA, Imig TJ (1980) Tonotopic organization in auditory cortex of the cat. J Comp Neurol 182:265–291

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Recanzone GH, Schreiner CE, Sutter ML, Beitel RE, Merzenich MM (1999) Functional organization of spectral receptive fields in the primary auditory cortex of the owl monkey. J Comp Neurol 415:460–481

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rennaker RL, Carey HL, Anderson SE, Sloan AM, Kilgard MP (2007) Anesthesia suppresses nonsynchronous responses to repetitive broadband stimuli. Neuroscience 145:357–369

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rosen S (1992) Temporal information in speech: acoustic, auditory and linguistic aspects. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 336:367–373

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rouiller E, de Ribaupierre Y, Toros-Morel A, de Ribaupierre F (1981) Neural coding of repetitive clicks in the medial geniculate body of cat. Hear Res 5:81–100

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rutkowski RG, Miasnikov AA, Weinberger NM (2003) Characterisation of multiple physiological fields within the anatomical core of rat auditory cortex. Hear Res 181:116–130

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schreiner CE, Cynader MS (1984) Basic functional organization of second auditory cortical field (AII) of the cat. J Neurophysiol 51:1284–1305

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schreiner CE, Raggio MW (1996) Neuronal responses in cat primary auditory cortex to electrical cochlear stimulation. II. Repetition rate coding. J Neurophysiol 75:1283–1300

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schreiner CE, Urbas JV (1986) Representation of amplitude modulation in the auditory cortex of the cat. I. The anterior auditory field (AAF). Hear Res 21:227–241

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schreiner CE, Urbas JV (1988) Representation of amplitude modulation in the auditory cortex of the cat. II. Comparison between cortical fields. Hear Res 32:49–64

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schreiner CE, Winer JA (2007) Auditory cortex mapmaking: principles, projections, and plasticity. Neuron 56:356–365

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schulze H, Langner G (1997) Periodicity coding in the primary auditory cortex of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus): two different coding strategies for pitch and rhythm? J Comp Physiol A 181:651–663

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Scott BH, Malone BJ, Semple MN (2011) Transformation of temporal processing across auditory cortex of awake macaques. J Neurophysiol 105:712–730

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sherman SM, Guillery RW (2006) Exploring the thalamus and its role in cortical function. MIT Press, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith PH, Bartlett EL, Kowalkowski A (2007) Cortical and collicular inputs to cells in the rat paralaminar thalamic nuclei adjacent to the medial geniculate body. J Neurophysiol 98:681–695

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Smith PH, Uhlrich DJ, Manning KA, Banks MI (2012) Thalamocortical projections to rat auditory cortex from the ventral and dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate nucleus. J Comp Neurol 520:34–51

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Suga N (1994) Multi-function theory for cortical processing of auditory information: implications of single-unit and lesion data for future research. J Comp Physiol A 175:135–144

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Suga N, Manabe T (1982) Neural basis of amplitude-spectrum representation in auditory cortex of the mustached bat. J Neurophysiol 47:225–255

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Suga N, Zhang Y, Yan J (1997) Sharpening of frequency tuning by inhibition in the thalamic auditory nucleus of the mustached bat. J Neurophysiol 77:2098–2114

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sullivan WE 3rd (1982a) Neural representation of target distance in auditory cortex of the echolocating bat Myotis lucifugus. J Neurophysiol 48:1011–1032

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sullivan WE 3rd (1982b) Possible neural mechanisms of target distance coding in auditory system of the echolocating bat Myotis lucifugus. J Neurophysiol 48:1033–1047

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ter-Mikaelian M, Sanes DH, Semple MN (2007) Transformation of temporal properties between auditory midbrain and cortex in the awake Mongolian gerbil. J Neurosci 27:6091–6102

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wang X, Merzenich MM, Beitel RE, Schreiner CE (1995) Representation of a species-specific vocalization in the primary auditory cortex of the common marmoset: temporal and spectral characteristics. J Neurophysiol 74:2685–2706

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wenstrup JJ (2005) The tectothalamic system. In: Winer JA, Schreiner CE (eds) The inferior colliculus. Springer, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Winer JA (1984) The human medial geniculate body. Hear Res 15:225–247

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Winer JA, Larue DT (1996) Evolution of GABAergic circuitry in the mammalian medial geniculate body. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93:3083–3087

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Winer JA, Lee CC (2007) The distributed auditory cortex. Hear Res 229:3–13

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Winer JA, Miller LM, Lee CC, Schreiner CE (2005) Auditory thalamocortical transformation: structure and function. Trends Neurosci 28:255–263

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Yin P, Johnson JS, O’Connor KN, Sutter ML (2011) Coding of amplitude modulation in primary auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol 105:582–600

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zhou Y, Mesik L, Sun YJ, Liang F, Xiao Z, Tao HW, Zhang LI (2012) Generation of spike latency tuning by thalamocortical circuits in auditory cortex. J Neurosci 32:9969–9980

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Skip Bertman Drive, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Dr. Kazuo Imaizumi

Authors
  1. Dr. Kazuo Imaizumi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kazuo Imaizumi .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Dieter Jaeger

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Ranu Jung

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this entry

Cite this entry

Imaizumi, K. (2014). Auditory Thalamocortical Transformations. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_102-6

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_102-6

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-7320-6

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Biomedicine and Life SciencesReference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Chapter history

  1. Latest

    Auditory Thalamocortical Transformations
    Published:
    24 May 2014

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_102-6

  2. Original

    Auditory Thalamocortical Transformations
    Published:
    26 February 2014

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_102-5

Search

Navigation