Non-sensory cortical and subcortical connections of the primary auditory cortex in Mongolian gerbils Bottom-up and top-down processing of neuronal information via field AI》.pdfVIP

B R A I N R E S E A R C H 1 2 2 0 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 2 – 3 2 ava i l a b l e a t w w w. s c i e n c e d i r e c t . c o m w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / b r a i n r e s Research Report Non-sensory cortical and subcortical connections of the primary auditory cortex in Mongolian gerbils: Bottom-up and top-down processing of neuronal information via field AI Eike Budingera,b,⁎, Anna Laszcza, Holger Lisona, Henning Scheicha, Frank W. Ohlc aLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Department of Auditory Learning and Speech, Brenneckestraße 6, D-39118 Magdeburg, Germany bClinic of Neurology II, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Leipziger Straße 44, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany cLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Research Group Neuroprosthetics, Brenneckestraße 6, D-39118 Magdeburg, Germany A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: In the present study, we will provide further anatomical evidence that the primary Accepted 5 July 2007 auditory cortex (field AI) is not only involved in sensory processing of its own modality, Available online 22 August 2007 but also in complex bottom-up and top-down processing of multimodal information. We have recently shown that AI in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) has substantial Keywords: connections with non-auditory sensory and multisensory brain structures [Budinger, E., Anatomy Heil, P., Hess, A., Scheich, H., 2006. Multisensory processing via early cortical stages: Conf