Neural contributions to the perstimulus compound action potential: Implications for measuring the growth of the auditory nerve spike count as a function of stimulus intensity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2720-2734

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

^a Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHINCHILLA; MODELS, ANATOMIC; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0030929905     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418560     Document Type: Article

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