Temporal coding of the pitch of complex sounds by presumed multipolar cells in the ventral cochlear nucleus

Speech Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-149

  Winter, Ian M ^a   Palmer, Alan R ^a,b   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a,c   Patterson, Roy D ^a  

^a Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Chopper units; Fundamental frequency; Iterated rippled noise; Onset units

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ITERATED RIPPLED NOISE (IRN);

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 0037680381     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00098-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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