論文

査読有り 筆頭著者 責任著者
2014年3月

Differential Coding of Conspecific Vocalizations in the Ventral Auditory Cortical Stream

JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
  • Makoto Fukushima
  • ,
  • Richard C. Saunders
  • ,
  • David A. Leopold
  • ,
  • Mortimer Mishkin
  • ,
  • Bruno B. Averbeck

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開始ページ
4665
終了ページ
4676
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3969-13.2014
出版者・発行元
SOC NEUROSCIENCE

The mammalian auditory cortex integrates spectral and temporal acoustic features to support the perception of complex sounds, including conspecific vocalizations. Here we investigate coding of vocal stimuli in different subfields in macaque auditory cortex. We simultaneously measured auditory evoked potentials over a large swath of primary and higher order auditory cortex along the supratemporal plane in three animals chronically using high-density microelectrocorticographic arrays. To evaluate the capacity of neural activity to discriminate individual stimuli in these high-dimensional datasets, we applied a regularized multivariate classifier to evoked potentials to conspecific vocalizations. We found a gradual decrease in the level of overall classification performance along the caudal to rostral axis. Furthermore, the performance in the caudal sectors was similar across individual stimuli, whereas the performance in the rostral sectors significantly differed for different stimuli. Moreover, the information about vocalizations in the caudal sectors was similar to the information about synthetic stimuli that contained only the spectral or temporal features of the original vocalizations. In the rostral sectors, however, the classification for vocalizations was significantly better than that for the synthetic stimuli, suggesting that conjoined spectral and temporal features were necessary to explain differential coding of vocalizations in the rostral areas. We also found that this coding in the rostral sector was carried primarily in the theta frequency band of the response. These findings illustrate a progression in neural coding of conspecific vocalizations along the ventral auditory pathway.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3969-13.2014
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000333674200023&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8809-7892
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3969-13.2014
  • ISSN : 0270-6474
  • ORCIDのPut Code : 13940873
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000333674200023

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