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Cortical Membrane Potential Signature of Optimal States for Sensory Signal Detection
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The neural correlates of optimal states for signal detection task performance are largely unknown. One hypothesis holds that optimal states exhibit tonically depolarized cortical neurons with enhanced spiking activity, such as occur during movement. We recorded membrane potentials of auditory cortical neurons in mice trained on a challenging tone-in-noise detection task while assessing arousal with simultaneous pupillometry and hippocampal recordings. Arousal measures accurately predicted multiple modes of membrane potential activity, including rhythmic slow oscillations at low arousal, stable hyperpolarization at intermediate arousal, and depolarization during phasic or tonic periods of hyper-arousal. Walking always occurred during hyper-arousal. Optimal signal detection behavior and sound-evoked responses, at both sub-threshold and spiking levels, occurred at intermediate arousal when pre-decision membrane potentials were stably hyperpolarized. These results reveal a cortical physiological signature of the classically observed inverted-U relationship between task performance and arousal and that optimal detection exhibits enhanced sensory-evoked responses and reduced background synaptic activity.
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“By employing head-restrained preparations, a growing body of work has demonstrated that behavioral state fluctuations have a strong impact on neuronal gain and coding properties in primary sensory areas36,43,66–70 and modulate neuronal firing within brain-wide neuronal networks44,71–74.”
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“These changes are sometimes coupled with overt movements such as whisking or locomotion”
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“and can also be predicted with high accuracy by changes in pupil diameter or muscle tone while animals are sitting quietly”
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“It has become increasingly clear that the waking state contains continuous transitions between numerous sub-states that are associated with significant changes in sensory-motor processing and behavioral performance”
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“New animal studies reveal that rapid, ongoing, and behaviorally-relevant variations in waking state are not the exception, but rather the rule”
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“This work has revealed that spontaneous and sensory-evoked activity varies continuously and rapidly during wakefulness.”
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“These variations in state exert an effect on sensory evoked neural activity that can be as significant as variations in the sensory stimulus itself”
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“During periods of quiet wakefulness (lacking overt movement), large low-frequency (< 10 Hz) fluctuations in the synaptic activity of somatosensory, visual, and auditory cortical neurons are frequently observed, and these oscillations are strongly suppressed by the initiation of whisking or locomotion”
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“The transition from the quiet awake state to movement (locomotion and/or whisking) in head-fixed mice is always preceded by a strong suppression of cortical slow rhythms at the action potential, membrane potential, and field potential, levels”
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“Recently, intracellular membrane potential (Vm) and local field potential (LFP) recordings from cortical neurons collected simultaneously with pupil diameter in head-fixed, spontaneously locomoting or whisking mice revealed a marked relationship between 1) pupil size, 2) low frequency (2–10 Hz) fluctuations in membrane potential/LFP, and 3) exploratory behaviors (whisking and locomotion)”
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“At these intermediate arousal levels, the average membrane potential of infragranular cortical neurons is at its most hyperpolarized, and least variable, level”
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“has been observed in visual, somatosensory, and auditory cortical areas”
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“Interestingly, the initiation of locomotion is preceded by a substantial increase in pupil diameter (Figures 2–4), concurrent with the reduction of low-frequency cortical local field potential synchronization and reduced hippocampal sharp wave and ripple oscillations.”
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“At low levels of arousal, cortical neurons exhibit a high density of large, slow, rhythmic fluctuations in synaptic activity”
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“Likewise, low-frequency cortical activity is enhanced during pupillary constriction, especially below a critical level of pupil diameter.”
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“Even in the absence of movement, increases in pupil diameter (dilation) were found to be associated with increases in cortical activation and suppression of low frequency rhythms.”
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“For example, the presence of these different types of synaptic and membrane potential dynamics at low and high arousal states results in a U-shaped relationship between arousal and average cortical membrane potential in deep layer neurons of the auditory cortex”
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“Additionally, the relationship between cortical membrane potential and pupil diameter is influenced by the presence of slow oscillations at low arousal states and strong barrages of synaptic activity and/or tonic depolarization at high arousal states”
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“The correlation between pupil diameter and the rate of sharp-wave ripples in the hippocampus (Figure 2D), further underscores the generality of this effect.”
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“Increases in arousal from low to intermediate levels result in a suppression of these low (1–10 Hz) frequency activities, a decrease in membrane potential fluctuations, and thus a decrease in spontaneous activity”
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“In addition to predicting changes in oscillatory network dynamics, changes in pupil diameter are reliably correlated with the average subthreshold membrane potential of at least some subtypes of neurons of the cortex, even in the absence of overt movement”
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“The transition from sitting quietly to exploratory behaviors (whisking and locomotion) is intertwined with changes in arousal tracked by pupillometry.”
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“As described above, even in the quiescent state devoid of overt movements, pupil dilation is associated with suppression of low-frequency, and enhancement of gamma-frequency, cortical network activities that can occur as either a rapid switching (Figure 2A) or as a graded and continuous change”
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“During the period of movement (whisking or locomotion), neurons in somatosensory, visual, motor, and auditory cortex maintain an elevated firing rate, the degree of which varies across cell types.”
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“For example, a subset of layer 5 pyramidal neurons throughout the cortex is activated by movement”
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“Following the cessation of locomotion, head-fixed mice typically exhibit a transition from high arousal to moderate or low arousal, as measured by pupil diameter, over a period of seconds or longer.”
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“This gradual decrease in pupil diameter is associated with an increase in the prevalence of low-frequency oscillations”
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“In contrast, in auditory cortex, the S/N peaks at intermediate arousal levels and may decrease strongly at high arousal levels and during locomotion”
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“Behavioral state is an important determinant of both the temporal precision of sensory responses and gamma-band synchronization.”
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“Spontaneous or causally induced increases in arousal are associated with a monotonic increase in gamma-band synchronization both in terms of local field potential and relative membrane potential power (Lee et al., 2014; Lima et al., 2011; McGinley et al., 2015; Reimer et al., 2014; Vinck et al., 2015), and spike-local field potential phase locking”
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“Changes in arousal result in marked multiplicative gain modulation of auditory cortical responses, with the largest responses being evoked at intermediate levels of arousal”
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“Indeed, compensating for these rapid variations in state can significantly reduce variability in the amplitude and timing of both sensory evoked and behavioral responses (McGinley et al., 2015; Reimer et al., 2014).”
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“in L5 of auditory cortex, variability is increased during low and high arousal (either during quiet or active waking), but reduced at intermediate arousal (McGinley et al., 2015).”
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“Monitoring of state through pupillometry reveals rapid (seconds) and continuous changes (Figure 2–4), indicating that a significant fraction of trial-to-trial variability in sensory evoked responses may be the result of variations in state.”
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“All three measures exhibited an inverted U relationship with arousal, with the largest, most reliable, and highest S/N ratio responses occurring at the same intermediate pupil diameters that revealed optimal performance on the auditory tone-in-complex sound detection task (Figure 7).”
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“Importantly, the performance of mice on this auditory detection task was highly state dependent, with maximal hit rate, shortest lick latency, maximal discrimination, and least behavioral bias all occurring at intermediate pupil diameters (Figure 7C).”
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“At present, intracellular recordings from cortical neurons support both the sigmoidal and U model of arousal (e.g. Figure 1–3).”
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“In contrast to the sigmoidal model of activation, intracellular recordings in awake behaving rodents can reveal a pattern that is more consistent with a U-shaped dependence of average membrane potential and cortical activation on arousal (McGinley et al., 2015) (Figures 3C, 8C).”
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“Interestingly, locomotion, as a sub-state of hyper-arousal, was associated with a strong decrease in behavioral performance, in comparison to intermediate arousal levels, which always occurred during stillness.”
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“Increases in arousal from low to intermediate, as indicated by increases in pupil diameter from small to medium, were associated with a large increase in task performance, while further increases in pupil diameter from intermediate to large were associated with a strong decrement in performance, whether or not the animal was walking at these large pupil diameters (Figure 7C).”
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“Interestingly, sound evoked responses in the auditory cortex also exhibited a strong relationship between arousal (pupil diameter) and the gain, amplitude, and reliability of these responses (Figure 7D).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McGinley, M. J., David, S. V., & McCormick, D. A.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- Corresponding author
- McGinley, Matthew J.
- McCormick, David A.
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-07
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 179-192
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4631312
- OpenAlex
- W1519578210
- Cited by
- 728
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 58 · 2025: 73 · 2024: 80 · 2023: 89 · 2022: 67 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 53 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 52 · 2016: 48 · 2015: 10
- FWCI
- 34.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Public Health Service (5R01N2026143)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC015803, 1F132DC012449, F32DC012449, R00DC010439)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS026143)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- signal detection, arousal, inverted U-shaped relationship, auditory cortex, tone-in-noise detection, pupillometry, slow oscillations, hyperpolarization, depolarization, synaptic activity
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Arousal, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Perception, Membrane Potentials, Neurons, Signal Detection, Psychological, Mice
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