Cochlear neuropathy and the coding of supra-threshold sound

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Bharadwaj, Hari M ^a,b   Verhulst, Sarah ^a,c,f   Shaheen, Luke ^d,e   Charles Liberman, M ^c,d,e   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory nerve; Auditory steady state response; Frequency following response; Individual differences; Noise induced hearing loss; Temporal coding; Temporary threshold shift

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUDITORY THRESHOLD SHIFT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CODING; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; NOISE INJURY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84896280728     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00026     Document Type: Article

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