Flora M. Antunes
University of Salamanca
12 Papers
19 Citations
Flora M. Antunes is an academic researcher from University of Salamanca. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medial geniculate body & Inferior colliculus. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Flora M. Antunes include Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Papers
Stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory thalamus of the anesthetized rat.
TL;DR: SSA is expressed strongly in the rat auditory thalamus and contribute significantly to auditory change detection and evidence of hyperacuity in neurons at a subcortical level is recorded.
The cortical modulation of stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory midbrain and thalamus: a potential neuronal correlate for predictive coding
TL;DR: Present research supports the hypothesis that SSA, at least in its simplest form, can be transmitted in a bottom-up manner through the auditory pathway, and modulating the gain of neurons in the thalamus and midbrain would refine SSA subcortically, preventing irrelevant information from reaching the cortex.
Effect of Auditory Cortex Deactivation on Stimulus-Specific Adaptation in the Medial Geniculate Body
TL;DR: It is reported that SSA in the auditory thalamus of the rat remains intact when the AC is deactivated by cooling, thus demonstrating that the AC will not be necessary for the generation of Ssa in theThalamus.
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Corticothalamic Pathways in Auditory Processing: Recent Advances and Insights From Other Sensory Systems.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the use of the transthalamic corticothalamic (CT) pathways for hierarchical perceptual inference in the auditory system and show that the thalamus can coordinate and contextualize hierarchical inference in cortical hierarchies.
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Role of GluA3 AMPA Receptor Subunits in the Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Maturation of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity of Endbulb-Bushy Cell Synapses in the Cochlear Nucleus.
TL;DR: Novel roles of the glutamate receptor subunit GluA3 in synaptic transmission in synapses between auditory nerve fibers and spherical bushy cells (BCs) in the cochlear nucleus are reported and it is shown that GLUA3 contributes to the generation of ultrafast glutamatergic currents at these synapses, which is important to preserve temporal information about the sound.
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