A new model for the shapes of rate-level functions of auditory-nerve fibers

20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, ICA 2010 - Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 3156-3163

  Heil, Peter ^a   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   Irvine, Dexter R F ^b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; AMPLITUDE FUNCTIONS; AUDITORY NERVES; AUDITORY-NERVE FIBERS; BASILAR MEMBRANES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; EMERGENT PROPERTY; POWER FUNCTIONS; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY;

ACOUSTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84869138357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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