Arousal-dependent auditory response in the brain of Bengalese finches as measured by gene expression
Iizuka, T.; Mori, C.; Okanoya, K.
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Songbirds use auditory feedback to maintain their own songs. Juveniles also memorize a tutor song and use memory as a template to make up their own songs through auditory feedback. A recent electrophysiological study revealed that HVC neurons respond to BOS playback only in low arousal, sleeping, or anesthetized conditions. One outstanding question is how does auditory suppression occur in the brain? Here, we determined how arousal affects auditory responses simultaneously in the whole brain and over the song neural circuit in Bengalese finches, using the immediate early gene egr-1 as a marker of neural activity. Our results showed that auditory responses in the low-arousal state were less susceptible to gating, which was also confirmed by gene expression, and that the suppression may be weaker than observed in previous zebra finch studies. This may be because the Bengalese finch is a domesticated species. In addition, our results suggest that information may flow from the MLd.I of the midbrain to higher auditory regions. Altogether, this study presents a new attempt to explore the auditory suppression network by simultaneously investigating the whole brain using molecular biology methods.
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