The representation of pure tones and noise in a model of cochlear nucleus neurons

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 1865-1879

  Eriksson, Jan L ^a   Robert, Arnaud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MIDDLE EAR; MODEL; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0032853316     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427936     Document Type: Article

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