Desynchronization of electrically evoked auditory-nerve activity by high-frequency pulse trains of long duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2066-2078

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

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEUROLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

NEURAL RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOGRAM; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; DEAFNESS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; KANAMYCIN; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE FIBERS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0142026424     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1612492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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