Growth rate of simultaneous masking in cat auditory-nerve fibers: Relationship to the growth of basilar-membrane motion and the origin of two- tone suppression

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3564-3575

  Pang, Xiao Dong ^a,b   Guinan Jr , John J ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CAT; COCHLEA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CATS; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 2642699940     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420147     Document Type: Article

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