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Article Dans Une Revue The Journal of Physiology Année : 2020

Increasing excitation vs. decreasing inhibition in auditory cortex: Consequences on the discrimination performance between communication sounds

Pierre Yger
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The level of excitability of cortical circuits is often viewed as one of the critical factors controlling perceptive performance. In theory, enhancing cortical excitability can be achieved either by reducing inhibitory currents or by increasing excitatory currents. Here, we evaluated whether reducing inhibitory currents or increasing excitatory currents in auditory cortex similarly affects the neurons’ ability to discriminate between communication sounds. We attenuated the inhibitory currents by Gabazine (GBZ) application, and increased the excitatory currents by applying AMPA in the auditory cortex while testing frequency receptive fields and responses to communication sounds. GBZ and AMPA enlarged the receptive fields and increased the responses to communication sounds to the same extent. The spike‐timing reliability of neuronal responses was largely increased when attenuating the intracortical inhibition but not after increasing the excitation. The discriminative abilities of cortical cells increased in both cases but this increase was more pronounced after attenuating the inhibition. The shape of the response to communication sounds was modified in opposite direction: Reducing inhibition increased the post‐excitation suppression whereas this suppression tended to disappear when increasing the excitation. A computational model indicates that the additive effect promoted by AMPA vs. the multiplicative effect of GBZ on neuronal responses, together with the dynamics of spontaneous cortical activity, can explain these differences. Thus, although apparently equivalent for increasing cortical excitability, acting on inhibition vs. on excitation impacts differently the cortical abilities to discriminate natural stimuli, only modulating inhibition changed efficiently the cortical representation of communication sounds.
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hal-02875052 , version 1 (19-06-2020)

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Quentin Gaucher, Pierre Yger, Jean-Marc Edeline. Increasing excitation vs. decreasing inhibition in auditory cortex: Consequences on the discrimination performance between communication sounds. The Journal of Physiology, 2020, 598 (17), pp.3765-3785. ⟨10.1113/JP279902⟩. ⟨hal-02875052⟩
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