Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.

Sensory information from different modalities is processed in parallel, and then integrated in associative brain areas to improve object identification and the interpretation of sensory experiences. The Superior Colliculus (SC) is a midbrain structure that plays a critical role in integrating visual...

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Autores principales: Shinya Ito, Yufei Si, Alan M Litke, David A Feldheim
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e15d4bcc167d4e8c92119db720ea57452021-12-02T19:57:40ZNonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.1553-734X1553-735810.1371/journal.pcbi.1009181https://doaj.org/article/e15d4bcc167d4e8c92119db720ea57452021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009181https://doaj.org/toc/1553-734Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358Sensory information from different modalities is processed in parallel, and then integrated in associative brain areas to improve object identification and the interpretation of sensory experiences. The Superior Colliculus (SC) is a midbrain structure that plays a critical role in integrating visual, auditory, and somatosensory input to assess saliency and promote action. Although the response properties of the individual SC neurons to visuoauditory stimuli have been characterized, little is known about the spatial and temporal dynamics of the integration at the population level. Here we recorded the response properties of SC neurons to spatially restricted visual and auditory stimuli using large-scale electrophysiology. We then created a general, population-level model that explains the spatial, temporal, and intensity requirements of stimuli needed for sensory integration. We found that the mouse SC contains topographically organized visual and auditory neurons that exhibit nonlinear multisensory integration. We show that nonlinear integration depends on properties of auditory but not visual stimuli. We also find that a heuristically derived nonlinear modulation function reveals conditions required for sensory integration that are consistent with previously proposed models of sensory integration such as spatial matching and the principle of inverse effectiveness.Shinya ItoYufei SiAlan M LitkeDavid A FeldheimPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Computational Biology, Vol 17, Iss 11, p e1009181 (2021)
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Shinya Ito
Yufei Si
Alan M Litke
David A Feldheim
Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.
description Sensory information from different modalities is processed in parallel, and then integrated in associative brain areas to improve object identification and the interpretation of sensory experiences. The Superior Colliculus (SC) is a midbrain structure that plays a critical role in integrating visual, auditory, and somatosensory input to assess saliency and promote action. Although the response properties of the individual SC neurons to visuoauditory stimuli have been characterized, little is known about the spatial and temporal dynamics of the integration at the population level. Here we recorded the response properties of SC neurons to spatially restricted visual and auditory stimuli using large-scale electrophysiology. We then created a general, population-level model that explains the spatial, temporal, and intensity requirements of stimuli needed for sensory integration. We found that the mouse SC contains topographically organized visual and auditory neurons that exhibit nonlinear multisensory integration. We show that nonlinear integration depends on properties of auditory but not visual stimuli. We also find that a heuristically derived nonlinear modulation function reveals conditions required for sensory integration that are consistent with previously proposed models of sensory integration such as spatial matching and the principle of inverse effectiveness.
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author Shinya Ito
Yufei Si
Alan M Litke
David A Feldheim
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Yufei Si
Alan M Litke
David A Feldheim
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title Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.
title_short Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.
title_full Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.
title_fullStr Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.
title_full_unstemmed Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.
title_sort nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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