Fine Functional Organization of Auditory Cortex Revealed by Fourier Optical Imaging

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 102; no. 37; pp. 13325 - 13330
• Main Authors: Kalatsky, Valery A., Polley, Daniel B., Merzenich, Michael M., Schreiner, Christoph E., Stryker, Michael P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 13.09.2005; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Animals; Auditory cortex; Auditory Cortex - anatomy & histology; Biological Sciences; Brain; Brain Mapping - methods; Diagnostic Imaging - methods; Diagnostic Imaging - standards; Document imaging; Ears & hearing; Electrophysiology; Female; Fourier Analysis; Hemodynamics; Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Methods; Neurology; Neurons; Neuroscience; Octaves; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Rodents; Ultrasonography

We provide an overall view of the functional tonotopic organization of the auditory cortex in the rat. We apply a recently developed technique for acquiring intrinsic signal optical maps, Fourier imaging, in the rat auditory cortex. These highly detailed maps, derived in a several-minute-long record...