Entrained neuronal activity to periodic visual stimuli in the primate striatum compared with the cerebellum

  1. Masashi Kameda
  2. Shogo Ohmae
  3. Masaki Tanaka  Is a corresponding author
  1. Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Japan

Abstract

Rhythmic events recruit neuronal activity in the basal ganglia and cerebellum, but their roles remain elusive. In monkeys attempting to detect a single omission of isochronous visual stimulus, we found that neurons in the caudate nucleus showed increased activity for each stimulus in sequence, while those in the cerebellar dentate nucleus showed decreased activity. Firing modulation in the majority of caudate neurons and all cerebellar neurons was proportional to the stimulus interval, but a quarter of caudate neurons displayed a clear duration tuning. Furthermore, the time course of population activity in the cerebellum well predicted stimulus timing, whereas that in the caudate reflected stochastic variation of response latency. Electrical stimulation to the respective recording sites confirmed a causal role in the detection of stimulus omission. These results suggest that striatal neurons might represent periodic response preparation while cerebellar nuclear neurons may play a role in temporal prediction of periodic events.

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  1. Masashi Kameda

    Department of Physiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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  2. Shogo Ohmae

    Department of Physiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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  3. Masaki Tanaka

    Department of Physiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Funding

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (17H03539)

  • Masaki Tanaka

Takeda Science Foundation

  • Masaki Tanaka

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  • Masashi Kameda

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (18H04928)

  • Masaki Tanaka

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (18H05523)

  • Masaki Tanaka

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (18J20197)

  • Masaki Tanaka

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Animal experimentation: All experimental protocols were evaluated and approved by the Hokkaido University Animal Care and Use Committee (#18-0003).

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© 2019, Kameda et al.

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  1. Masashi Kameda
  2. Shogo Ohmae
  3. Masaki Tanaka
(2019)
Entrained neuronal activity to periodic visual stimuli in the primate striatum compared with the cerebellum
eLife 8:e48702.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48702

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