Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Single-neuron representation of learned complex sounds in the auditory cortex

  • Meng Wang,
  • Xiang Liao,
  • Ruijie Li,
  • Shanshan Liang,
  • Ran Ding,
  • Jingcheng Li,
  • Jianxiong Zhang,
  • Wenjing He,
  • Ke Liu,
  • Junxia Pan,
  • Zhikai Zhao,
  • Tong Li,
  • Kuan Zhang,
  • Xingyi Li,
  • Jing Lyu,
  • Zhenqiao Zhou,
  • Zsuzsanna Varga,
  • Yuanyuan Mi,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Junan Yan,
  • Shaoqun Zeng,
  • Jian K. Liu,
  • Arthur Konnerth,
  • Israel Nelken,
  • Hongbo Jia,
  • Xiaowei Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18142-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Using a combination of two-photon imaging and single-cell electrophysiology, the authors discover that associative learning induces the emergence of a unique subset of neurons in the auditory cortex, exhibiting high-rate bursting responses to the learned complex sounds but not to any of the constituents.