Reversal of Age-Related Changes in Cortical Sound-Azimuth Selectivity with Training.

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2019
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Abstract
The compromised abilities to understand speech and localize sounds are two hallmark deficits in aged individuals. Earlier studies have shown that age-related deficits in cortical neural timing, which is clearly associated with speech perception, can be partially reversed with auditory training. However, whether training can reverse aged-related cortical changes in the domain of spatial processing has never been studied. In this study, we examined cortical spatial processing in ~21-month-old rats that were trained on a sound-azimuth discrimination task. We found that animals that experienced 1 month of training displayed sharper cortical sound-azimuth tuning when compared to the age-matched untrained controls. This training-induced remodeling in spatial tuning was paralleled by increases of cortical parvalbumin-labeled inhibitory interneurons. However, no measurable changes in cortical spatial processing were recorded in age-matched animals that were passively exposed to training sounds with no task demands. These results that demonstrate the effects of training on cortical spatial domain processing in the rodent model further support the notion that age-related changes in central neural process are, due to their plastic nature, reversible. Moreover, the results offer the encouraging possibility that behavioral training might be used to attenuate declines in auditory perception, which are commonly observed in older individuals.
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Authors Cheng, Yuan;Zhang, Yifan;Wang, Fang;Jia, Guoqiang;Zhou, Jie;Shan, Ye;Sun, Xinde;Yu, Liping;Merzenich, Michael M;Recanzone, Gregg H;Yang, Lianfang;Zhou, Xiaoming;
Journal cerebral cortex (new york, ny : 1991)
Year 2019
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aging inhibition plasticity auditory training cortical processing

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