PMID: 9442849Jan 1, 1997Paper

Optical imaging of neural activity in auditory cortex induced by intracochlear electrical stimulation

Acta Oto-laryngologica. Supplementum
I TaniguchiM Nasu

Abstract

Little is known about the representation of electrically evoked activity in the auditory cortex. We observed evoked activity in guinea pig auditory cortex evoked by acoustical and electrical stimulation to the cochlea by optical imaging with the aid of a voltage-sensitive dye. Light signals from the cortex were recorded with a 12 x 12 array of photodiodes, and transferred to the spatio-temporal images by every 0.57 ms. The activity by pure tones was shown spatio-temporally through tonotopical organization in the cortex according to the sound frequencies. The tonotopic responses were dynamically changed. When the cochlea was stimulated with single electrical pulses, focal activities were observed in the cortex as spatio-temporal patterns. Activated cortical regions were not sharply localized, but varied with stimulating positions of the cochlea. The curves of response magnitude versus stimulus intensity showed the narrow dynamic range, and that of latency was almost constant. These results were significantly different from those for normal sound stimulation.

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