Towards a unifying basis of auditory thresholds: Distributions of the first-spike latencies of auditory-nerve fibers

Hearing Research

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 25-38

  Heil, Peter ^a   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   Brown, Mel ^b   Irvine, Dexter R F ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absolute threshold; Auditory nerve; Distribution; Hair cell; Latency; Poisson process; Rate level function; Ribbon synapse; Spike timing; Variability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CAT; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; HAIR CELL; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40849100422     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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