A mathematical analysis of spatiotemporal summation of auditory nerve firings

Information Sciences

Volumn 111, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 303-334

  Bruce, Ian C ^a,b   Irlicht, Laurence S ^a   Clark, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve model; Convergence; Spatial summation; Synchronization; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVE (AN) FIRINGS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS (CN);

INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUDITION;

EID: 0032203263     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(98)10010-5     Document Type: Article

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