Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Audio-visual experience strengthens multisensory assemblies in adult mouse visual cortex

  • Thomas Knöpfel,
  • Yann Sweeney,
  • Carola I. Radulescu,
  • Nawal Zabouri,
  • Nazanin Doostdar,
  • Claudia Clopath,
  • Samuel J. Barnes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13607-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Sensory stimuli usually arrive simultaneously but the neural-circuit mechanisms that combine multiple streams of sensory information are incompletely understood. The authors here show that visual-auditory pairing drives plasticity in multi-modal neuron networks within the mouse visual cortex.