Improved temporal coding of sinusoids in electric stimulation of the auditory nerve using desynchronizing pulse trains

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2079-2098

  Litvak, Leonid M ^a,b   Delgutte, Bertrand ^a,b   Eddington, Donald K ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEUROLOGY; PULSE MODULATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

AUDITORY-NERVE FIBERS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; DEAFNESS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE FIBERS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0142026419     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1612493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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