From hearing to listening: Design and properties of an actively tunable electronic hearing sensor

Sensors

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3287-3298

  Stoop, Ruedi ^a   Jasa, Tom ^a   Uwate, Yoko ^a   Martignoli, Stefan ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Electronics; Hearing sensor

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HOPF BIFURCATION; MAMMALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR AMPLIFIERS; COUPLED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MAMMALIAN COCHLEA; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT; REAL-TIME CAPACITY; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

AUDITION;

EID: 39749203440     PISSN: 14243210     EISSN: 14248220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s7123287     Document Type: Article

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