GUEST: Prof Israel Nelken, The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University - ‘Frequency-specific adaptation and stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory system’
Responses of auditory neurons to a repeated, stimulus tend to decrease, but often the decrease does not generalize to other, even rather similar stimuli. These effects have been studied mostly with pure tone stimuli, although they are also present for complex stimuli, and we have named them stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA). SSA may however be a misnomer, because the specific reduction of the responses to a complex stimulus may be driven by frequency-specific adaptation to its frequency components, so that SSA could be in fact an expression of frequency-specific adaptation (FSA). Here I will discuss critical tests of FSA and SSA in the inferior colliculus and in auditory cortex, suggesting the emergence of SSA in cortex from FSA in the inferior colliculus.
Date: 4 May 2018, 13:00
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: DPAG Sherrington Large Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building, Sherrington Road (off Parks Road) - 01865 272500
Speaker: Professor Israel Nelken (The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Organising department: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)
Organisers: Sally Collins (University of Oxford), Sarah Noujaim (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Organiser contact email address: hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford)
Part of: DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Sarah Noujaim