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Auditory responses in the ventral tegmental area of awake freely moving mice Samira Souffi (24360254) Neurosciences not elsewhere classified ventral tegmental area sound-related responses fiber photometry mice <p dir="ltr">We use fiber photometry in awake freely-moving mice to investigate how the VTA represents auditory stimuli. We compared VTA responses to those in the inferior colliculus (IC) recorded with the same technique. Neural activity in the VTA exhibited robust responses to a wide variety of auditory stimuli, including broadband noise, pure tones, and music stimuli. We identified a subset of short-latency trials, comparable to those observed in the IC, although their proportion was significantly lower in the VTA. VTA responses to complex sounds showed minimal envelope tracking and low temporal reproducibility, resulting in poor discriminability.<br><br></p> 2026-10-01T16:22:25Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.32972669.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Auditory_responses_in_the_ventral_tegmental_area_of_awake_freely_moving_mice/32972669 CC BY 4.0