A neural-counting model incorporating refractoriness and spread of excitation. I. Application to intensity discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1979, Pages 1738-1749

  Lachs, Gerard ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEARING; HUMAN; INNER EAR; INNERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; HUMAN; LABYRINTH; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018554980     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.383647     Document Type: Article

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