TY  - JOUR
A1  - García Rosales, Francisco
A1  - López Jury, Luciana
A1  - González Palomares, Eugenia
A1  - Cabral-Calderı́n, Yuranny
A1  - Hechavarria-Cueria, Julio C.
T1  - Fronto-temporal coupling dynamics during spontaneous activity and auditory processing in the bat carollia perspicillata
T2  - Frontiers in systems neuroscience
N2  - Most mammals rely on the extraction of acoustic information from the environment in order to survive. However, the mechanisms that support sound representation in auditory neural networks involving sensory and association brain areas remain underexplored. In this study, we address the functional connectivity between an auditory region in frontal cortex (the frontal auditory field, FAF) and the auditory cortex (AC) in the bat Carollia perspicillata. The AC is a classic sensory area central for the processing of acoustic information. On the other hand, the FAF belongs to the frontal lobe, a brain region involved in the integration of sensory inputs, modulation of cognitive states, and in the coordination of behavioral outputs. The FAF-AC network was examined in terms of oscillatory coherence (local-field potentials, LFPs), and within an information theoretical framework linking FAF and AC spiking activity. We show that in the absence of acoustic stimulation, simultaneously recorded LFPs from FAF and AC are coherent in low frequencies (1–12 Hz). This “default” coupling was strongest in deep AC layers and was unaltered by acoustic stimulation. However, presenting auditory stimuli did trigger the emergence of coherent auditory-evoked gamma-band activity (>25 Hz) between the FAF and AC. In terms of spiking, our results suggest that FAF and AC engage in distinct coding strategies for representing artificial and natural sounds. Taken together, our findings shed light onto the neuronal coding strategies and functional coupling mechanisms that enable sound representation at the network level in the mammalian brain.
KW  - frontal cortex
KW  - auditory cortex
KW  - oscillations
KW  - local-field potentials
KW  - functional coupling
KW  - coherence
KW  - sensory coding
KW  - auditory processing
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53338
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-533382
VL  - 14
IS  - article 14
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -