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- Title
Gated visual input to the central auditory system.
- Authors
Gutfreund, Yoram; Zheng, Weimin; Knudsen, Eric I
- Abstract
The central auditory system translates sound localization cues into a map of space guided, in part, by visual experience. In barn owls, this process takes place in the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICX). However, to date, no trace of visual activity has been observed in this auditory nucleus. Here we show that strong visual responses, which are appropriate to guide auditory plasticity, appear in the ICX when inhibition is blocked in the optic tectum. Thus, visual spatial information is gated into the auditory system by an inhibitory mechanism that operates at a higher level in the brain.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2002, Vol 297, Issue 5586, p1556
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1073712