Evaluating Auditory Performance Limits: I. One-Parameter Discrimination Using a Computational Model for the Auditory Nerve

Neural Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2273-2316

  Heinz, Michael G ^a,b   Colburn, H Steven ^b   Carney, Laurel H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEAR NERVE; HEARING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NERVE; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0035487165     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976601750541804     Document Type: Article

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