Recruitment of neurons and loudness: Commentary on "encoding intensity in ventral cochlear nucleus following acoustic trauma: Implications for loudness recruitment" by Cai et al. J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. DOI: 10.1007/s10162-008-0142-y

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-4

  Joris, Philip X ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acoustic trauma; Auditory nerve; Cochlear nucleus; Intensity coding; Recruitment; Sensorineural hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; EXCITATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; NEURONS;

EID: 58349098805     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-009-0156-0     Document Type: Note

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