The midbrain origin of audotory predictive processing and how dopamine modulates early perception of surprising sounds

[EN] The predictive processing framework comprises neurobiologically-informed models of cortical function. These models consist of hierarchical neural networks arranged in several levels of processing. Higher-order levels develop expectations that try to predict and inhibit the input from lower-orde...

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Author: Carbajal, Guillermo V.
Format: doctoral thesis
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repository:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/149480
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/149480
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Tesis y disertaciones académicas
Universidad de Salamanca (España)
Tesis Doctoral
Academic dissertations
MMN/mismatch negativity
SSA/stimulus-specific adaptation
IC/inferior colliculus
Dopamine
Deviance detection
Novelty perception
Predictive processing
Neurociencias cognitivas
Microelectrodes
Auditory Perceptual Disorders
Auditory Perception
Biomarkers, Pharmacological
2490 Neurociencias
trastornos perceptivos de la audición
percepción auditiva
microelectrodos
biomarcadores farmacológicos
dopamina
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Summary:[EN] The predictive processing framework comprises neurobiologically-informed models of cortical function. These models consist of hierarchical neural networks arranged in several levels of processing. Higher-order levels develop expectations that try to predict and inhibit the input from lower-order levels. In turn, lower-order levels signal prediction errors to higher levels when their expectations about incoming input are not met. The main aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that predictive processing in the auditory system does not begin at the level of the cerebral cortex, but as deep as in the midbrain. Auditory oddball paradigms, in combination with no-repetition controls, were presented to anesthetized rats and awake mice while performing extracellular recordings in the inferior colliculus, in order to find traces of prediction error signaling that could not be accounted for by sheer stimulus-specific adaptation. In addition, dopaminergic agonists and antagonists were applied by means of microiontophoresis in order to test how D2-like receptors mediate the modulation of surprise responses in the neurons of the cortex of the inferior colliculus. Results confirmed that auditory midbrain neurons generate genuine prediction error signals, which expected precision is encoded by dopaminergic projections from the subparafascicular nucleus of the thalamus to the cortex of the inferior colliculus. Hence, the inferior colliculus is the first station capable of implementing predictive processing in the ascending auditory pathway.