PMID- 30571726
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190507
LR  - 20200309
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 12
DP  - 2018
TI  - Adaptation and spectral enhancement at auditory temporal perceptual boundaries - 
      Measurements via temporal precision of auditory brainstem responses.
PG  - e0208935
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0208935 [doi]
LID - e0208935
AB  - In human and animal auditory perception the perceived quality of sound streams 
      changes depending on the duration of inter-sound intervals (ISIs). Here, we 
      studied whether adaptation and the precision of temporal coding in the auditory 
      periphery reproduce general perceptual boundaries in the time domain near 20, 
      100, and 400 ms ISIs, the physiological origin of which are unknown. In four 
      experiments, we recorded auditory brainstem responses with five wave peaks (P1 
      -P5) in response to acoustic models of communication calls of house mice, who 
      perceived these calls with the mentioned boundaries. The newly introduced measure 
      of average standard deviations of wave latencies of individual animals indicate 
      the waves' temporal precision (latency jitter) mostly in the range of 30-100 mus, 
      very similar to latency jitter of single neurons. Adaptation effects of response 
      latencies and latency jitter were measured for ISIs of 10-1000 ms. Adaptation 
      decreased with increasing ISI duration following exponential or linear (on a 
      logarithmic scale) functions in the range of up to about 200 ms ISIs. Adaptation 
      effects were specific for each processing level in the auditory system. The 
      perceptual boundaries near 20-30 and 100 ms ISIs were reflected in significant 
      adaptation of latencies together with increases of latency jitter at P2-P5 for 
      ISIs < ~30 ms and at P5 for ISIs < ~100 ms, respectively. Adaptation effects 
      occurred when frequencies in a sound stream were within the same critical band. 
      Ongoing low-frequency components/formants in a sound enhanced (decrease of 
      latencies) coding of high-frequency components/formants when the frequencies 
      concerned different critical bands. The results are discussed in the context of 
      coding multi-harmonic sounds and stop-consonants-vowel pairs in the auditory 
      brainstem. Furthermore, latency data at P1 (cochlea level) offer a reasonable 
      value for the base-to-apex cochlear travel time in the mouse (0.342 ms) that has 
      not been determined experimentally.
FAU - Geissler, Diana B
AU  - Geissler DB
AD  - Institute of Neurobiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
FAU - Weiler, Elke
AU  - Weiler E
AD  - Institute of Neurobiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
FAU - Ehret, Gunter
AU  - Ehret G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1201-4878
AD  - Institute of Neurobiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20181220
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - Acoustic Stimulation
MH  - *Adaptation, Physiological
MH  - Animal Communication
MH  - Animals
MH  - Auditory Cortex/*physiology
MH  - Auditory Perception/physiology
MH  - Auditory Threshold/physiology
MH  - Brain Mapping
MH  - Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology
MH  - Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem/*physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Mice
MH  - Neurons/physiology
MH  - Reaction Time/*physiology
MH  - Sound
PMC - PMC6301773
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2018/12/21 06:00
MHDA- 2019/05/08 06:00
PMCR- 2018/12/20
CRDT- 2018/12/21 06:00
PHST- 2018/08/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/11/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/12/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/12/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/05/08 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/12/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-18-24324 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0208935 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2018 Dec 20;13(12):e0208935. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208935. 
      eCollection 2018.