Optical imaging of plastic changes induced by fear conditioning in the auditory cortex of guinea pig

Yoshinori Ide, Johan Lauwereyns, Minoru Tsukada

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Abstract

In this study, the plastic change in the auditory cortex induced by fear conditioning with pairing of sound (Conditioned Stimulus, CS) and electric foot-shock (Unconditioned Stimulus, US) was investigated by using of an optical recording. To investigate the effect of associated learning, optical signals in the auditory cortex to CS (12 kHz pure tone) and non-CS (8 kHz and 16 kHz pure tone) were recorded before and after the conditioning. As a result, the response area only to CS increased after the conditioning. On the other hand, to investigate whether auditory information could be retrieved by electric foot-shock after associated learning or not, auditory response to foot-shock alone was also investigated. As a result, the optical response in the auditory cortex to electric foot-shock alone could not be observed before the conditioning but clearly appeared after the conditioning.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neuro-Information Processing - 15th International Conference, ICONIP 2008, Revised Selected Papers
Pages416-422
Number of pages7
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Neuro-Information Processing, ICONIP 2008 - Auckland, New Zealand
Duration: Nov 25 2008Nov 28 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume5506 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other15th International Conference on Neuro-Information Processing, ICONIP 2008
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityAuckland
Period11/25/0811/28/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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