On cochlear encoding: Potentialities and limitations of the reverse-correlation technique

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1978, Pages 115-135

  De Boer, E ^a   De Jongh, H R ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUDITION;

ANIMAL; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEA; CODING; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HEARING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMAL; CATS; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MATHEMATICS; METHODS; NEURONS, AFFERENT;

EID: 0017804799     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.381704     Document Type: Article

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