VISUAL INSTRUCTION OF THE NEURAL MAP OF AUDITORY SPACE IN THE DEVELOPING OPTIC TECTUM

被引:161
作者
KNUDSEN, EI
BRAINARD, MS
机构
[1] Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Sherman Fairchild Science Building, Stanford
关键词
PRIMATE SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; BARN OWL; GUINEA-PIG; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; RESPONSE PROPERTIES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; EYE-MOVEMENTS; SENSITIVITY; DEPRIVATION; MATURATION;
D O I
10.1126/science.2063209
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Neural maps of visual and auditory space are aligned in the adult optic tectum. In barn owls, this alignment of sensory maps was found to be controlled during ontogeny by visual instruction of the auditory spatial tuning of neurons. Large adaptive changes in auditory spatial tuning were induced by raising owls with displacing prisms mounted in spectacle frames in front of the eyes; neurons became tuned to sound source locations corresponding to their optically displaced, rather than their normal, visual receptive field locations. The results demonstrate that visual experience during development calibrates the tectal auditory space map in a site-specific manner, dictating its topography and alignment with the visual space map.
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