Quantifying envelope and fine-structure coding in auditory nerve responses to chimaeric speech

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-423

  Heinz, Michael G ^a,b   Swaminathan, Jayaganesh ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Neural cross correlation; Recovered envelopes; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHIMERA; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUND; SPEECH; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE FIBERS; SPEECH;

EID: 68549115448     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-009-0169-8     Document Type: Article

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