Natural auditory environment consists of multiple sound sources that are embedded in ambient strong and weak noise. For effective sound communication and signal analysis, animals must somehow extract biologically relevant signals from the inevitable interference of ambient noise. The present study examined how a weak noise may affect the amplitude sensitivity of neurons in the mouse central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (IC) which receives convergent excitatory and inhibitory inputs from both lower and higher auditory centers. Specifically, we studied the amplitude sensitivity of IC neurons using a probe (best frequency pulse) and a masker (weak noise) under simultaneous masking paradigm. For most IC neurons, weak noise masking increases the minimum threshold and decreases the number of impulses. Noise masking also increased the slope and decreased the dynamic range of the rate amplitude function of these IC neurons. The strength of this noise masking was greater at low than at high sound amplitudes. This variation in the amplitude sensitivity of IC neurons in the presence of the weak noise was mostly mediated through GABAergic inhibition. These data indicate that in the real world the ambient weak noise improves amplitude sensitivity of IC neurons through GABAergic inhibition while inevitably decreases the range of overall auditory sensitivity of IC neurons.
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