Abstract
Repeated presentations of sensory stimuli generate transient gamma-frequency (30-80 Hz) responses in neocortex that show plasticity in a task-dependent manner. Complex relationships between individual neuronal outputs and the mean, local field potential (population activity) accompany these changes, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms responsible. Here we show that transient stimulation of input layer 4 sufficient to generate gamma oscillations induced two different, lamina-specific plastic processes that correlated with lamina-specific changes in responses to further, repeated stimulation: Unit rates and recruitment showed overall enhancement in supragranular layers and suppression in infragranular layers associated with excitatory or inhibitory synaptic potentiation onto principal cells, respectively. Both synaptic processes were critically dependent on activation of GABAB receptors and, together, appeared to temporally segregate the cortical representation. These data suggest that adaptation to repetitive sensory input dramatically alters the spatiotemporal properties of the neocortical response in a manner that may both refine and minimize cortical output simultaneously.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1605243113 |
| Pages (from-to) | E2721-E2729 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue number | 19 |
| Early online date | 26 Apr 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 10 May 2016 |
Bibliographical note
© 2016, The Author(s).Keywords
- Gaba receptor
- Gamma rhythms
- Habituation
- Sensory processing
- Synaptic plasticity
