A neural circuit transforming temporal periodicity information into a rate-based representation in the mammalian auditory system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 310-326

  Dicke, Ulrike ^a   Ewert, Stephan D ^a   Dau, Torsten ^b   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

FILTERBANK ANALYSIS; NEURAL CIRCUIT; PERIODIC AMPLITUDE MODULATIONS; TEMPORAL ACTIVITY PATTERNS;

AUDITION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FILTER; FILTER DESIGN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS;

EID: 33846242177     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2400670     Document Type: Article

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