Auditory two-tone suppression from a subcritical Hopf cochlea

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 351, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 175-183

  Stoop, R ^a   Steeb, W H ^b   Gallas, J C ^c   Kern, A ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TUNING;

HOPF AMPLIFIERS; HOPF COCHLEA; SOUND SPECTRUM; TWO-TONE SUPPRESSION;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 15344339508     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.12.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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22. Two-tone suppression experiments [8] suggest that hair cells over the extension of ≈ 650 μ m contribute to active amplification. This would be hardly consistent with the narrow amplifier bandwidth of critical tuning. During nonstationary driving only, μ may cross the critical point, e.g., in order to reduce the response time for follow-up signals.