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Stimulus change detection in phasic auditory units in the frog midbrain: frequency and ear specific adaptation

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Neural adaptation, a reduction in the response to a maintained stimulus, is an important mechanism for detecting stimulus change. Contributing to change detection is the fact that adaptation is often stimulus specific: adaptation to a particular stimulus reduces excitability to a specific subset of stimuli, while the ability to respond to other stimuli is unaffected. Phasic cells (e.g., cells responding to stimulus onset) are good candidates for detecting the most rapid changes in natural auditory scenes, as they exhibit fast and complete adaptation to an initial stimulus presentation. We made recordings of single phasic auditory units in the frog midbrain to determine if adaptation was specific to stimulus frequency and ear of input. In response to an instantaneous frequency step in a tone, 28 % of phasic cells exhibited frequency specific adaptation based on a relative frequency change (delta-f = ±16 %). Frequency specific adaptation was not limited to frequency steps, however, as adaptation was also overcome during continuous frequency modulated stimuli and in response to spectral transients interrupting tones. The results suggest that adaptation is separated for peripheral (e.g., frequency) channels. This was tested directly using dichotic stimuli. In 45 % of binaural phasic units, adaptation was ear specific: adaptation to stimulation of one ear did not affect responses to stimulation of the other ear. Thus, adaptation exhibited specificity for stimulus frequency and lateralization at the level of the midbrain. This mechanism could be employed to detect rapid stimulus change within and between sound sources in complex acoustic environments.

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Abbreviations

BF:

Best frequency

CRW:

Change response window

ESA:

Ear specific adaptation

ERB:

Equivalent rectangular bandwidth

F1:

First frequency presented

F2:

Second frequency presented

FM:

Frequency modulation

FSA:

Frequency specific adaptation

MMN:

Mismatch negativity

ORW:

Onset response window

SSA:

Stimulus specific adaptation

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We thank T. Weyand, C. Canavier, C. Chen, L. Harrison, B. Carlson, T. Forrest, W. Gordon, C. Regan, K. Imaizumi, and two anonymous reviewers for feedback on the project. KLH and HEF were supported in part by a Grass Faculty Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (2009). AP and HEF were supported by NIH grant P20RR016816 (to N. Bazan). KH was supported by NSF IOS-0940466.

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Ponnath, A., Hoke, K.L. & Farris, H.E. Stimulus change detection in phasic auditory units in the frog midbrain: frequency and ear specific adaptation. J Comp Physiol A 199, 295–313 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-013-0794-x

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