Quantifying the information in auditory-nerve responses for level discrimination

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 294-311

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

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve modeling; Intensity discrimination; Neural coding; Nonlinear phase; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CODING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0141729469     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-002-1090-6     Document Type: Article

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