Preservation of amplitude modulation coding in the presence of background noise by chinchilla auditory-nerve fibers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 475-490

  Frisina, Robert D ^a   Karcich, Kenneth J ^a   Tracy, Todd C ^a   Sullivan, Daniel M ^a   Walton, Joseph P ^a   Colombo, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Veda Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINCHILLA; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0030026944     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414559     Document Type: Article

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