Predicted effects of sensorineural hearing loss on across-fiber envelope coding in the auditory nerve

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4001-4013

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADJACENT CHANNELS; AUDITORY NERVES; CHARACTERISTIC-FREQUENCY; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVELOPE CORRELATION; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; NEURAL INFORMATION; NEURAL PREDICTION; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; SPIKE TRAIN;

AUDITION; CORRELATION METHODS; MODULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; INNERVATION; NOISE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERIODICITY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959402622     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3583502     Document Type: Article

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