Threshold tuning curves of chinchilla auditory-nerve fibers. I. Dependence on characteristic frequency and relation to the magnitudes of cochlear vibrations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2889-2898

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

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; CORTI ORGAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SOUND INTENSITY; TUNING CURVE; VIBRATION; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VIBRATION;

EID: 57049122283     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90637.2008     Document Type: Article

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