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SUBMITTER: Robinson BL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5123015 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robinson Benjamin L BL Harper Nicol S NS McAlpine David D
Nature communications 20161124
Neural adaptation is central to sensation. Neurons in auditory midbrain, for example, rapidly adapt their firing rates to enhance coding precision of common sound intensities. However, it remains unknown whether this adaptation is fixed, or dynamic and dependent on experience. Here, using guinea pigs as animal models, we report that adaptation accelerates when an environment is re-encountered-in response to a sound environment that repeatedly switches between quiet and loud, midbrain neurons acc ...[more]