The transmission of signals by auditory-nerve fiber discharge patterns

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 493-501

  Johnson, Don H ^a   Swami, Ananthram ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES - TRANSMISSION;

AUDITORY-NERVE FIBERS; POINT PROCESS THEORY;

AUDITION;

AUDITORY SYSTEM; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SIGNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMAN; NERVE FIBERS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, NEUROLOGIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0020799714     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.389815     Document Type: Article

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