An in vivo investigation of first spike latencies in the inferior colliculus in response to multichannel penetrating auditory brainstem implant stimulation

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Mauger, Stefan J ^a,b   Shivdasani, Mohit N ^a,b   Rathbone, Graeme D ^a,b   Argent, Rebecca E ^b   Paolini, Antonio G ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY BRAINSTEM IMPLANTS; AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; FREQUENCY REGIONS; IN-VIVO; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MULTI-CHANNEL; NEURAL FIRING; PERFORMANCE OUTCOME; SINGLE NEURON; SPEECH FEATURES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TARGET LOCATION; TEMPORAL ASPECTS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TEMPORAL RESPONSE;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FUZZY CONTROL; SPEECH PROCESSING;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY BRAIN STEM IMPLANT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CELL ACTIVATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FIRST SPIKE LATENCY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; IMPLANTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY BRAIN STEM IMPLANTATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77952361607     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/7/3/036004     Document Type: Article

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