Traveling waves on the organ of corti of the chinchilla cochlea: Spatial trajectories of inner hair cell depolarization inferred from responses of auditory-nerve fibers

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 10522-10529

  Temchin, Andrei N ^a   Recio Spinoso, Alberto ^a,b   Cai, Hongxue ^a,c   Ruggero, Mario A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Universidad Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; CORTI ORGAN; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FIRING RATE; HAIR CELL; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEREOCILIUM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN OF CORTI; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TECTORIAL MEMBRANE; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84864454146     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1138-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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