Ambiguous pitch and the temporal representation of inharmonic iterated rippled noise in the ventral cochlear nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 11925-11938

  Sayles, Mark ^a   Winter, Ian M ^a  

^a PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem; Cochlear nucleus; Complex tone; Inharmonic sounds; Interspike intervals; Iterated rippled noise; Pitch ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GUINEA PIG; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GUINEA PIGS; NEURONS; NOISE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149336860     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3137-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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