White Noise Background Improves Tone Discrimination by Suppressing Cortical Tuning Curves

TY - JOUR

T1 - White Noise Background Improves Tone Discrimination by Suppressing Cortical Tuning Curves

AU - Christensen, Rasmus Kordt

AU - Linden, Henrik

AU - Nakamura, Mari

AU - Barkat, Tania Rinaldi

PY - 2019/11/12

Y1 - 2019/11/12

N2 - Christensen et al. ask how sensory representation and its perception change with noise. They show that background white noise suppresses the activity of A1 neurons, surprisingly increasing the discriminability of tones spectrally close to each other. Optogenetic manipulation of A1 confirms the involvement of this region in the behavioral improvement.

AB - Christensen et al. ask how sensory representation and its perception change with noise. They show that background white noise suppresses the activity of A1 neurons, surprisingly increasing the discriminability of tones spectrally close to each other. Optogenetic manipulation of A1 confirms the involvement of this region in the behavioral improvement.

U2 - 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.10.049

DO - 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.10.049

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 31722216

SN - 2211-1247

VL - 29

SP - 2041

EP - 2053

JO - Cell Reports

JF - Cell Reports

IS - 7

ER -