Why do I hear but not understand? Stochastic undersampling as a model of degraded neural encoding of speech

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Lopez Poveda, Enrique A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory deafferentation; Auditory encoding; Hearing impairment; Hearing loss; Speech intelligibility; Speech processing; Stochastic sampling

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AGING; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NOISE; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; OTOTOXICITY; OUTER HAIR CELL; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84910099078     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00348     Document Type: Review

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