In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 36, No. 5_Supplement ( 1964-05-01), p. 1017-1017
Abstract:
Spike discharges of single units in the cat's cochlear nucleus in response to repetitive tone-burst stimulation were recorded with metal microelectrodes; histograms of times of discharges relative to onset of stimuli were obtained on the TX-0 computer. The histograms of the responses of some units show several distinct peaks, that indicate that any one unit fires at preferred times during each tone-burst presentation. The time of the first peak (latency of response) and the time intervals between successive peaks change systematically with changes in intensity (tens of dB's), repetition rate (5–35/sec), and duration (10–100 msec) of the tone bursts (2–40 kc/sec). These time measurements decrease monotonically with increases in stimulus intensity and increase monotonically with increases in stimulus repetition rate and duration. They do not correlate with the frequency of tone to which the unit is most sensitive. [Work supported in part by the U. S. Army Signal Corps, the U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U. S. Office of Naval Research; the National Science Foundation (grant G-16526), the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (grant MH-04737-03); the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (grant NsG-496); and in part by research grant B-1344, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.]
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0001-4966
,
1520-8524
Language:
English
Publisher:
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Publication Date:
1964
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1461063-2
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