The periodogram and Allan variance reveal fractal exponents greater than unity in auditory-nerve spike trains

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3585-3591

  Lowen, Steven B ^a   Teich, Malvin C ^b  

^a Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; CATS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0029942110     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414979     Document Type: Article

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