Auditory-nerve first-spike latency and auditory absolute threshold: A computer model

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 406-417

  Meddis, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY-NERVE FIBER SPIKES; NEURONS;

CALCIUM; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LATENT PERIOD; MEASUREMENT; NERVE FIBER; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALCIUM; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GUINEA PIGS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 30844470677     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2139628     Document Type: Article

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