Threshold tuning curves of chinchilla auditory nerve fibers. II. Dependence on spontaneous activity and relation to cochlear nonlinearity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2899-2906

  Temchin, Andrei N ^a   Rich, Nola C ^b   Ruggero, Mario A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern Univ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TUNING CURVE; VIBRATION; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; NERVE FIBERS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 57049118496     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90639.2008     Document Type: Article

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