Electrical excitation of the acoustically sensitive auditory nerve: Single-fiber responses to electric pulse trains

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-210

  Miller, Charles A ^a,b,c   Abbas, Paul J ^a,b   Robinson, Barbara K ^a   Nourski, Kirill V ^b   Zhang, Fawen ^a   Jeng, Fuh Cherng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UIHC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Cat; Cochlear implant; Residual hearing; Single fiber

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; DEAFNESS; HAIR CELLS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33747074926     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-006-0036-9     Document Type: Article

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