Cell-type specific pallial circuits shape categorical tuning responses in the crow telencephalon.
Journal
Communications biology
ISSN: 2399-3642
Titre abrégé: Commun Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101719179
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
25 03 2022
25 03 2022
Historique:
received:
30
09
2021
accepted:
28
02
2022
entrez:
26
3
2022
pubmed:
27
3
2022
medline:
19
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL), an integration centre in the telencephalon of birds, plays a crucial role in representing and maintaining abstract categories and concepts. However, the computational principles allowing pallial microcircuits consisting of excitatory and inhibitory neurons to shape the tuning to abstract categories remain elusive. Here we identified the major pallial cell types, putative excitatory projection cells and inhibitory interneurons, by characterizing the waveforms of action potentials recorded in crows performing a cognitively demanding numerical categorization task. Both cell types showed clear differences in their capacity to encode categorical information. Nearby and functionally coupled putative projection neurons generally exhibited similar tuning, whereas putative interneurons showed mainly opposite tuning. The results favour feedforward mechanisms for the shaping of categorical tuning in microcircuits of the NCL. Our findings help to decipher the workings of pallial microcircuits in birds during complex cognition and to compare them vis-a-vis neocortical processes in mammals.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35338240
doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03208-z
pii: 10.1038/s42003-022-03208-z
pmc: PMC8956685
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
269Subventions
Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
ID : Ni 618/11-1
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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