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Acoustically Enriched Environment during the Critical Period of Postnatal Development Positively Modulates Gap Detection and Frequency Discrimination Abilities in Adult Rats
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SYSNO ASEP 0551111 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Acoustically Enriched Environment during the Critical Period of Postnatal Development Positively Modulates Gap Detection and Frequency Discrimination Abilities in Adult Rats Author(s) Pysaněnko, Kateryna (UEM-P) ORCID
Rybalko, Natalia (UEM-P) RID
Bureš, Zbyněk (UEM-P) RID, ORCID
Šuta, Daniel (UEM-P) RID
Lindovský, Jiří (UEM-P)
Syka, Josef (UEM-P) RIDArticle number 6611922 Source Title Neural Plasticity. - : Hindawi - ISSN 2090-5904
mar., č. 2021 (2021)Number of pages 21 s. Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords acoustic Stimulation ; age Factors ; animals ; newborn ; auditory Perception Subject RIV FH - Neurology OECD category Neurosciences (including psychophysiology R&D Projects LTAIN19201 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) GA18-09692S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UEM-P - RVO:68378041 UT WOS 000631854800002 EID SCOPUS 85103287384 DOI 10.1155/2021/6611922 Annotation Throughout life, sensory systems adapt to the sensory environment to provide optimal responses to relevant tasks. In the case of a developing system, sensory inputs induce changes that are permanent and detectable up to adulthood. Previously, we have shown that rearing rat pups in a complex acoustic environment (spectrally and temporally modulated sound) from postnatal day 14 (P14) to P28 permanently improves the response characteristics of neurons in the inferior colliculus and auditory cortex, influencing tonotopical arrangement, response thresholds and strength, and frequency selectivity, along with stochasticity and the reproducibility of neuronal spiking patterns. In this study, we used a set of behavioral tests based on a recording of the acoustic startle response (ASR) and its prepulse inhibition (PPI), with the aim to extend the evidence of the persistent beneficial effects of the developmental acoustical enrichment. The enriched animals were generally not more sensitive to startling sounds, and also, their PPI of ASR, induced by noise or pure tone pulses, was comparable to the controls. They did, however, exhibit a more pronounced PPI when the prepulse stimulus was represented either by a change in the frequency of a background tone or by a silent gap in background noise. The differences in the PPI of ASR between the enriched and control animals were significant at lower (55 dB SPL), but not at higher (65-75 dB SPL), intensities of background sound. Thus, rearing pups in the acoustically enriched environment led to an improvement of the frequency resolution and gap detection ability under more difficult testing conditions, i.e., with a worsened stimulus clarity. We confirmed, using behavioral tests, that an acoustically enriched environment during the critical period of development influences the frequency and temporal processing in the auditory system, and these changes persist until adulthood. Workplace Institute of Experimental Medicine Contact Lenka Koželská, lenka.kozelska@iem.cas.cz, Tel.: 241 062 218, 296 442 218 Year of Publishing 2022 Electronic address https://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2021/6611922/
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