Audio-visual experience strengthens multisensory assemblies in adult mouse visual cortex

Sensory stimuli usually arrive simultaneously but the neural-circuit mechanisms that combine multiple streams of sensory information are incompletely understood. The authors here show that visual-auditory pairing drives plasticity in multi-modal neuron networks within the mouse visual cortex.

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Main Authors: Thomas Knöpfel, Yann Sweeney, Carola I. Radulescu, Nawal Zabouri, Nazanin Doostdar, Claudia Clopath, Samuel J. Barnes
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b59fcdd02a4047f1b6117f7a8958b6d5
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Summary:Sensory stimuli usually arrive simultaneously but the neural-circuit mechanisms that combine multiple streams of sensory information are incompletely understood. The authors here show that visual-auditory pairing drives plasticity in multi-modal neuron networks within the mouse visual cortex.