Context-dependent signaling of coincident auditory and visual events in primary visual cortex
- CNRS, France
Abstract
Detecting rapid, coincident changes across sensory modalities is essential for recognition of sudden threats or events. Using two-photon calcium imaging in identified cell types in awake, head-fixed mice, we show that, among the basic features of a sound envelope, loud sound onsets are a dominant feature coded by the auditory cortex neurons projecting to primary visual cortex (V1). In V1, a small number of layer 1 interneurons gates this cross-modal information flow in a context-dependent manner. In dark conditions, auditory cortex inputs lead to suppression of the V1 population. However, when sound input coincides with a visual stimulus, visual responses are boosted in V1, most strongly after loud sound onsets. Thus, a dynamic, asymmetric circuit connecting AC and V1 contributes to the encoding of visual events that are coincident with sounds.
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Data and software availability. The data that support the findings of this study are freely available at https://www.bathellier-lab.org/downloads or at Dryad, doi:10.5061/dryad.82r5q83. Custom analysis scripts are available as a source code file.
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Data from: Context-dependent signaling of coincident auditory and visual events in primary visual cortexDryad Digital Repository, doi:10.5061/dryad.82r5q83.
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Funding
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Retour Postdoc)
- Deneux Thomas
- Brice Bathellier
Human Frontier Science Program (CDA)
- Evan R Harrell
- Brice Bathellier
H2020 European Research Council (ERC CoG)
- Alexandre Kempf
- Sebastian Ceballo
- Anton Filipchuk
- Brice Bathellier
Seventh Framework Programme (Marie Curie CiG)
- Brice Bathellier
Fondation pour l'Audition (Lab grant)
- Evan R Harrell
- Brice Bathellier
École Doctorale Frontières du Vivant - Programme Bettencourt (Phd fellowship)
- Alexandre Kempf
Paris-Saclay University (NeuroSaclay Brainscopes)
- Brice Bathellier
Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris (Phd fellowship)
- Sebastian Ceballo
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All animal procedures were approved by the French Ethical Committee (authorization 00275.01).
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© 2019, Thomas et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Context-dependent signaling of coincident auditory and visual events in primary visual cortex
eLife 8:e44006.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44006
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