Perception of stochastically undersampled sound waveforms: A model of auditory deafferentation

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 JUL, 2013, Pages

  Lopez Poveda, Enrique A ^a,b,c   Barrios, Pablo ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA DE SALAMANCA IBSAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Auditory aging; Auditory deafferentation; Hearing loss; Information theory; Model; Stochastic sampling; Vocoder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DEAFFERENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PROBABILITY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND WAVEFORM; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPIKE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84885415090     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00124     Document Type: Article

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