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Stimulus-specific adaptation in auditory cortex is an NMDA-independent process distinct from the sensory novelty encoded by the mismatch negativity.
Journal of Neuroscience 2010 December 9
The significance of the mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential measured in humans which indexes novelty in the auditory environment, has motivated a search for a cellular correlate of this process. A leading candidate is stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) in auditory cortex units, which shares several characteristics with the MMN. Whether auditory cortex responses encode sensory novelty, a defining property of the MMN, however, has not been resolved. To evaluate this key issue, we used several variations of the auditory oddball paradigm from the human literature and examined psychophysical and pharmacological properties of multiunit activity in the auditory cortex of awake rodents. We found converging evidence dissociating SSA from sensory novelty and the MMN. First, during an oddball paradigm with frequency deviants, neuronal responses showed clear SSA but failed to encode novelty in a manner analogous to the human MMN. Second, oddball paradigms using intensity or duration deviants revealed a pattern of unit responses that showed sensory adaptation, but again without any measurable novelty correlates aligning to the human MMN. Finally NMDA antagonists, which are known to disrupt the MMN, suppressed the magnitude of multiunit responses in a nonspecific manner, leaving the process of SSA intact. Together, our results suggest that auditory novelty detection as indexed by the MMN is dissociable from SSA at the level of activity encoded by auditory cortex neurons. Further, the NMDA sensitivity reported for the MMN, which models the disruption of MMN observed in schizophrenia, may occur at a mechanistic locus outside of SSA.
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