Learning-induced physiological memory in adult primary auditory cortex: Receptive field plasticity, model, and mechanisms

Audiology and Neuro-Otology

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 145-167

  Weinberger, Norman M ^a   Bakin, Jonathan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult plasticity; Basal forebrain cholinergic system; Hebbian mechanisms; Representation of frequency

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEAFFERENTATION; FOREBRAIN; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; GUINEA PIG; LEARNING; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHOCK;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 0031947995     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000013787     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Aitkin L: The Auditory Cortex: Structural and Functional Bases of Auditory Perception. London, Chapman & Hall, 1990.
2. Armony JL, Servan-Schreiber D, Cohen JD, LeDoux JE: An anatomically constrained neural network Model of fear conditioning. Behav Neurosci 1995;109:246-257.
3. Ashe JH, McKenna TM, Weinberger NM: Cholinergic modulation of frequency receptive fields in auditory cortex. II. Frequency specific effects of anticholinesterases provide evidence for a modulatory action of endogenous ACh. Synapse 1989;4:44-54.
4. Bakin JS, Lepan B, Weinberger NM: Sensitization induced receptive field plasticity in the auditory cortex is independent of CS-modality. Brain Res 1992;577:226-235.
5. Bakin JS, Weinberger NM: Classical conditioning induces CS-specific receptive field plasticity in the auditory cortex of the guinea pig. Brain Res 1990;536:271-286.
6. Bakin JS, Weinberger NM: Induction of a physiological memory in the cerebral cortex by stimulation of the nucleus basalis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1996;93:11219-11224.
7. Birt D, Olds M: Associative response changes in lateral midbrain tegmentum and medial geniculate during differential appetitive conditioning. J Neurophysiol 1981;46:1039-1055.
8. Boring EG: A History of Experimental Psychology. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957.
9. Burton MJ, Rolls ET, Mora F: Effects of hunger on the responses of neurons in the lateral hypothalamus to the sight and taste of food. Exp Neurol 1976;51:668-677.
10. Buzsaki G, Gage FH: The cholinergic nucleus basalis: A key structure in neocortical arousal. EXS 1991;57: 159-171.
11. Condon CD, Weinberger NM: Habituation produces frequency-specific plasticity of receptive fields in the auditory cortex. Behav Neurosci 1991;105:416-430.
12. Cruikshank SJ, Weinberger NM: Receptive field plasticity in the adult auditory cortex induced by Hebbian covariance. J Neurosci 1996a;16:861-875.
13. Cruikshank SJ, Weinberger NM: Evidence for the Hebbian hypothesis in experience-dependent physiological plasticity of neocortex: A critical review. Brain Res Rev 1996b;22:191-228.
14. Dawson DR, Killackey HP: The organization and mutability of the forepaw and hindpaw representations in the somatosensory cortex of the neonatal rat. J Comp Neurol 1987;256: 246-256.
15. Deutsch JA: The cholinergic synapse and the site of memory. Science 1971;174:788-794.
16. Diamond DM, Weinberger NM: Classical conditioning rapidly induces specific changes in frequency receptive fields of single neurons in secondary and ventral ectosylvian auditory cortical fields. Brain Res 1986;372:357-360.
17. Diamond DM, Weinberger NM: The role of context in the expression of learning induced plasticity of single neurons in auditory cortex. Behav Neurosci 1989;103:471-494.
18. Edeline JM, Dutrieux G, Neuenschwander-El Massioui N: Multi-unit changes in hippocampus and medial geniculate body in free-behaving rats during acquisition and retention of a conditioned response to a tone. Behav Neural Biol 1988;50: 61-79.
19. Edeline JM, Pham P, Weinberger NM: Rapid development of learning induced receptive field plasticity in the auditory cortex. Behav Neurosci 1993;107:539-557.
20. Edeline JM, Weinberger NM: Thalamic short-term plasticity in the auditory system: Associative retuning of receptive fields in the ventral medial geniculate body. Behav Neurosci 1991;105:618-639.
21. Edeline JM, Weinberger NM: Associative retuning in the thalamic source of input to the amygdala and auditory cortex: Receptive field plasticity in the medial geniculate body. Behav Neurosci 1992;106:81-105.
22. Gabriel M, Saltwick SE, Miller JD: Conditioning and reversal of short latency multiple unit responses in the rabbit medial geniculate nucleus. Science 1975;189:1108-1109.
23. Gibson EJ: Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969.
24. Hartgraves SL, Mensah PL, Kelly PH: Regional decreases of cortical choline acetyltransferase after lesions of the septal area and in the area of nucleus basalis magnocellularis. Neuroscience 1982;7:2369-2376.
25. Hebb DO: Organization of Behavior. New York, Wiley, 1949.
26. Herkenham M: New perspectives on the organization and evolution of nonspecific thalamocortical projections; in Jones EG, Peters A (eds): Cerebral Cortex: Sensory-Motor Areas and Aspects of Cortical Connectivity. New York, Plenum Press, 1986, pp 403-445.
27. Johnston MV, McKinney M, Coyle JT: Evidence for a cholinergic projection to neocortex from neurons in the basal forebrain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1979;76:5392-5396.
28. Johnston MV, McKinney M, Coyle JT: Neocortical cholinergic innervation: A description of extrinsic and intrinsic components in the rat. Exp Brain Res 1981;43:159-172.
29. Lehman J, Nagy JI, Atmadia S, Fibiger HC: The nucleus basalis magnocellularis: The origin of a cholinergic projection to the neocortex of the rat. Neuroscience 1980;5:1161-1174.
30. Lennartz RC, Weinberger NM: Analysis of response systems in Pavlovian conditioning reveals rapidly vs. slowly acquired conditioned responses. Support for two factors and implications for neurobiology. Psychobiology 1992;20:93-119.
31. Lennartz RC, Weinberger NM: A comparison of nonspecific and nictitation membrane conditioned responses: Additional support for two-factor theories. Psychobiology 1994; 22:5-15.
32. Love JA, Scott JW: Some response characteristics of cells of the magnocellular division of the medial geniculate body of the cat. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 1969;47:881-888.
33. McEchron MD, Green EJ, Winters RW, Nolen TG, Schneiderman N, McCabe PM: Changes of synaptic efficacy in the medial geniculate nucleus as a result of auditory classical conditioning. J Neurosci 1996;1: 1273-1283.
34. McEchron MD, McCabe PM, Green EJ, Llabre MM, Schneiderman N: Simultaneous single unit recording in the medial nucleus of the medial geniculate and amygdaloid central nucleus throughout habituation, acquisition, and extinction of the rabbit's classically conditioned heart rate. Brain Res 1995;682:157-166.
35. McGaugh JL: Involvement of hormonal and neuromodulatory systems in the regulation of memory storage. Annu Rev Neurosci 1989;12:255-287.
36. McKenna TM, Ashe JH, Weinberger NM: Cholinergic modulation of frequency receptive fields in auditory cortex. I. Frequency specific effects of muscarinic agonists. Synapse 1989;4:30-43.
37. Mackintosh NJ: Conditioning and Associative Learning. Oxford University Press, 1983.
38. Maho C, Hars B, Edeline J-M, Hennevin E: Conditioned changes in the basal forebrain: Relations with learning-induced cortical plasticity. Psychobiology 1995;23:10-25.
39. Mesulam MM, Mufson EJ, Wainer BH, Levey AI: Central cholinergic pathways in the rat: An overview based on an alternative nomenclature (Ch1-Ch6). Neuroscience 1983;10: 1185-1201.
40. Metherate R, Cox CL, Ashe JH: Cellular bases of neocortical activation: Modulation of neural oscillations by the nucleus basalis and endogenous acetylcholine. J Neurosci 1992;12: 4701-4711.
41. Metherate R, Weinberger NM: Acetyl-choline produces stimulus specific receptive field alterations in cat auditory cortex. Brain Res 1989;480: 372-377.
42. Metherate R, Weinberger NM: Cholinergic modulation of responses to single tones produces tone specific receptive field alterations in cat auditory cortex. Synapse 1990;6:133-145.
43. Mora F, Rolls ET, Burton MJ: Modulation during learning of the responses of neurons in the lateral hypothalamus to the sight of food. Exp Neurol 1976;53:508-519.
44. Recanzone GH, Schreiner CE, Merzenich MM: Plasticity in the frequency representation of primary auditory cortex following discrimination training in adult owl monkeys. J Neurosci 1993;13:87-103.
45. Rescorla RA: Behavioral studies of Pavlovian conditioning. Annu Rev Neurosci 1988;11:329-352.
46. Richardson RT, DeLong MR: Nucleus basalis of Meynert neuronal activity during a delayed response task in monkey. Brain Res 1986;399:364-368.
47. Rolls ET, Sanghera MK, Roper-Hall A: The latency of activation of neurones in the lateral hypothalamus and substantia innominata during feeding in the monkey. Brain Res 1979;164:121-135.
48. Ryugo DK, Weinberger NM: Differential plasticity of morphologically distinct neuron populations in the medial geniculate body of the cat during classical conditioning. Behav Biol 1978;22:275-301.
49. Schacter DL, Tulving E: Memory Systems 1994. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1994.
50. Stent GS: A physiological mechanism for Hebb's postulate of learning. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1973;70: 997-1001.
51. Van der Loos H, Woolsey TA: Somatosensory cortex: Structural alterations following early injury to sense organs. Science 1973;179:385-398.
52. Weinberger NM: Sensory plasticity and learning: The magnocellular medial geniculate nucleus of the auditory system; in Woody CD (ed): Conditioning: Representation of Involved Neural Function. New York, Plenum Press, 1982, pp 697-710.
53. Weinberger NM: Dynamic regulation of receptive fields and maps in the adult sensory cortex. Annu Rev Neurosci 1995a;18:129-158.
54. Weinberger NM: Retuning the brain by fear conditioning; in Gazzaniga MS (ed): The Cognitive Neurosciences. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1995b, pp 1071-1089.
55. Weinberger NM, Ashe JH: A Model of Learning-Induced Physiological Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: Evaluation and Prospects, submitted.
56. Weinberger NM, Ashe JH, Metherate R, McKenna TM, Diamond DM, Bakin J: Retuning auditory cortex by earning: A preliminary model of receptive field plasticity. Concepts Neurosci 1990a;1:91-132.
57. Weinberger NM, Ashe JH, Metherate R, McKenna TM, Diamond DM, Bakin JS, Lennartz RC, Cassady JM: Neural adaptive information processing: A preliminary model of receptive field plasticity in the auditory cortex during Pavlovian conditioning; in Gabriel M, Moore J (eds): Neurocomputation and Learning: Foundations of Adaptive Networks. Cambridge, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1990b, pp 91-138.
58. Weinberger NM, Diamond DM: Physiological plasticity in auditory cortex: Rapid induction by learning. Prog Brain Res 1987;29:1-55.
59. Weinberger NM, Javid R, Lepan B: Long-term retention of learning induced receptive field plasticity in the auditory cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1993;90:2394-2398.
60. Weinberger NM, Javid R, Lepan B: Heterosynaptic long-term facilitation of sensory evoked responses in the auditory cortex by stimulation of the magnocellular medial geniculate body. Behav Neurosci 1995;109:10-17.
61. Weinberger NM, Lindsley DB: Behavioral and electroencephalographic arousal to contrasting novel stimulation. Science 1964;144:1355-1357.
62. Wepsic JG: Multimodal sensory activation of cells in the magnocellular medial geniculate nucleus. Exp Neurol 1966;15:299-318.
63. Wiesel TN, Hubel DH: Single cell responses in striate cortex of kittens deprived of vision in one eye. J Neurophysiol 1963;26:1003-1017.
64. Wiesel TN, Hubel DH: Comparison of the effects of unilateral and bilateral eye closure on cortical unit responses in kittens. J Neurophysiol 1965;28:1029-1040.
65. Winer JA: The functional architecture of the medial geniculate body and the primary auditory cortex; in Popper AN, Fay RR, Webster DB (eds): The Neuroanatomy of the Mammalian Auditory Pathways. Springer Series in Auditory Research, vol I. New York, Springer 1992.