Discriminability of vowel representations in cat auditory-nerve fibers after acoustic trauma

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 311-325

  Miller, Roger L ^a,b   Calhoun, Barbara M ^a   Young, Eric D ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0032918723     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424552     Document Type: Article

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