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STIMULUS- AND CONTEXT-DEPENDENT TEMPORAL FILTERING IN THE AUDITORY PATHWAY OF THE LOCUST

Temporal filtering of sensory input is crucial for the recognition of many sensory stimuli. Auditory neurons perform various computations and signal transformations to accomplish temporal filtering of acoustic input, comprising temporal integration, temporal resolution, and temporal feature selection. To test whether temporal filtering processes within a neuron type depend on stimulus features, such as intensity, and on context, such as temperature, I conducted neurophysiological recordings from neurons in the auditory pathway of migratory locusts. First, I examined temporal integration in receptors and interneurons. The time course and extent of integration of subthreshold acoustic stimuli were neuronspecific. While peripheral sensory neurons acted as energy integrators, interneurons showed different temporal integration profiles, enabling neuron-specific temporal filtering. The analysis of postsynaptic potentials elucidated implemented mechanisms, suggesting that temporal integration is based on neuron-specific presynaptic and neuron-intrinsic computations. Second, I studied the response recovery of receptors and interneurons to the second stimulus in a stimulus pair, separated by a few milliseconds. This revealed the effect of acute, short-term adaptation and thus indicated the maximal temporal resolution of these neurons. In the sensory periphery response recovery was shaped by moderate adaptation and an exponential recovery. In many interneurons non-linear effects occurred, comprising a suppression of the response to the second stimulus and a response gain. Third, I tested the effect of temperature on temporal filtering. Temporal feature selectivity of interneurons was examined at cold and warm temperatures. With increasing temperature, the neurons preferred a temporally compressed feature. Temperature-dependent changes in temporal feature selectivity might thus contribute to temperature coupling of the sender and the receiver of the poikilothermic grasshoppers.