Auditory motion-specific mechanisms in the primate brain

Autor: David Hunter, Simon Baumann, Alexander Thiele, Adrian Rees, Colline Poirier, Olivier Joly, Christopher I. Petkov, Li Sun, Fabien Balezeau, Timothy D. Griffiths, Pradeep Dheerendra
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
Eye Movements
Vision
Physiology
Visual System
Sensory Physiology
Motion Perception
Social Sciences
Monkeys
Macaque
Diagnostic Radiology
0302 clinical medicine
Animal Cells
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Cortex (anatomy)
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Biology (General)
media_common
Mammals
Neurons
Brain Mapping
medicine.diagnostic_test
Radiology and Imaging
General Neuroscience
Brain
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Sensory Systems
medicine.anatomical_structure
Auditory System
Vertebrates
Auditory imagery
Sensory Perception
Anatomy
Cellular Types
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Research Article
Primates
Motion analysis
QH301-705.5
Imaging Techniques
media_common.quotation_subject
Neuroimaging
Biology
Research and Analysis Methods
Auditory cortex
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology

03 medical and health sciences
Diagnostic Medicine
Perception
biology.animal
Old World monkeys
medicine
Animals
Sound Localization
Auditory Cortex
Biology and life sciences
General Immunology and Microbiology
Organisms
Eye movement
Cell Biology
Macaca mulatta
030104 developmental biology
Cellular Neuroscience
Amniotes
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Neuroscience
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: PLoS Biology
PLoS Biology, Vol 15, Iss 5, p e2001379 (2017)
ISSN: 1545-7885
1544-9173
Popis: This work examined the mechanisms underlying auditory motion processing in the auditory cortex of awake monkeys using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We tested to what extent auditory motion analysis can be explained by the linear combination of static spatial mechanisms, spectrotemporal processes, and their interaction. We found that the posterior auditory cortex, including A1 and the surrounding caudal belt and parabelt, is involved in auditory motion analysis. Static spatial and spectrotemporal processes were able to fully explain motion-induced activation in most parts of the auditory cortex, including A1, but not in circumscribed regions of the posterior belt and parabelt cortex. We show that in these regions motion-specific processes contribute to the activation, providing the first demonstration that auditory motion is not simply deduced from changes in static spatial location. These results demonstrate that parallel mechanisms for motion and static spatial analysis coexist within the auditory dorsal stream.
Author summary Motion is a fundamental dimension of acoustic and visual stimuli that is critical for animals to interact with their environment. Yet, surprisingly, we still do not understand the basic mechanisms in the brain that underlie perception of auditory motion. For the last 30 y, this research field has been hampered by unsuccessful attempts to answer a simple but fundamental question: is auditory motion perception deduced from processing individual static sounds, or are there mechanisms in the auditory domain dedicated to detecting motion? Here we report the discovery of specific motion detectors located in the auditory cortex of primates. We demonstrate that these auditory motion detectors are close to the well-known visual motion detectors. Both types of detectors are likely to be crucial for the planning of limb and eye movement. This study addresses a fundamental issue in neuroscience and sheds new light on the brain mechanisms underlying the essential aspects of our ability to navigate the world.
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