Manuel S. Malmierca
University of Salamanca
117 Papers
273 Citations
Manuel S. Malmierca is an academic researcher from University of Salamanca. The author has contributed to research in topics: Inferior colliculus & Auditory cortex. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 99 publications. Previous affiliations of Manuel S. Malmierca include University of Connecticut Health Center & University of Oslo.
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Papers
Stimulus-specific adaptation in the inferior colliculus of the anesthetized rat.
TL;DR: Some of the mechanisms that may underlie novelty detection and behavioral habituation to common sounds are already well developed at the midbrain by neurons in the inferior colliculus using an oddball stimulus paradigm.
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Neurons along the auditory pathway exhibit a hierarchical organization of prediction error
Gloria G. Parras,Javier Nieto-Diego,Guillermo V. Carbajal,Catalina Valdés-Baizabal,Carles Escera,Manuel S. Malmierca +5 more
TL;DR: How auditory patterns are encoded and detected by single neurons along the auditory pathway is described, demonstrating that prediction error exists in single auditory neurons and underlies automatic deviance detection at subcortical levels of processing.
Novelty detector neurons in the mammalian auditory midbrain.
TL;DR: The finding of neurons that respond selectively to novel stimuli in the mammalian auditory midbrain suggests that they may contribute to a rapid subcortical pathway for directing attention and/or orienting responses to novel sounds.
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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 Neuronal Basis of Predictive Coding Along the Auditory Pathway: From the Subcortical Roots to Cortical Deviance Detection.
TL;DR: There is enough empirical evidence to consider SSA and MMN, respectively, as the microscopic and macroscopic manifestations of the same physiological mechanism of deviance detection in the auditory cortex, and the development of a common theoretical framework is all the more recommendable for future studies.
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