Discrimination of Voiced Stop Consonants Based on Auditory Nerve Discharges

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 531-541

  Bandyopadhyay, Sharba ^a   Young, Eric D ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b 505 Traylor Research Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Formant transitions; Information theory; JND; Kullback Leibler distance; Neural discrimination; Release burst; Stop consonant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND PRESSURE; SPIKE; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; COCHLEAR NERVE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); KINETICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 1642458156     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4234-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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