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Can Extensive Training Transform a Mouse into a Guinea Pig? An Evaluation Based on the Discriminative Abilities of Inferior Colliculus Neurons

Alexandra Martin
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Samira Souffi
Chloé Huetz
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Is our ability to discriminate speech in noise an innate and fixed ability, or can it be increased by a perceptual learning task? And if this is the case, can we find neural correlates of this improved perceptual ability? To address this question, we trained adult mice to discriminate between acoustically similar calls from guinea pigs, first in quiet, then in two types of masking noise at three different signal-to-noise ratios. The mice performance was excellent in quiet and decreased when the signal-to-noise became negative. After three months of training, we recorded the auditory responses in auditory brainstem neurons (inferior colliculus) and found that their responses tended to be stronger and more discriminative than those of passively exposed mice and, more surprisingly, sometimes stronger and more discriminative than those of guinea pigs. These results exemplify the fact that extensive practice in a perceptual learning task can improve the way auditory neurons process speech-like sounds in noise.
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Alexandra Martin, Samira Souffi, Chloé Huetz, Jean-Marc Edeline. Can Extensive Training Transform a Mouse into a Guinea Pig? An Evaluation Based on the Discriminative Abilities of Inferior Colliculus Neurons. Biology, 2024, 13 (2), pp.92. ⟨10.3390/biology13020092⟩. ⟨hal-04453586⟩
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