Is loudness simply proportional to the auditory nerve spike count?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2735-2740

  Relkin, Evan M ^a   Doucet, John R ^a,b  

^a Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^b Center for Hearing and Balance   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; LOUDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0030927967     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418561     Document Type: Article

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