Sound coding in the auditory nerve: from single fiber activity to cochlear mass potentials in gerbils

A Huet, C Batrel, J Wang, G Desmadryl, R Nouvian… - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) convey acoustic information from the sensory cells to the
brainstem using an elaborated neural code based on both spike timing and rate. As the …

Sound coding in the auditory nerve of gerbils

A Huet, C Batrel, Y Tang, G Desmadryl, J Wang… - Hearing Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Gerbils possess a very specialized cochlea in which the low-frequency inner hair cells
(IHCs) are contacted by auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) having a high spontaneous rate (SR) …

Mass potentials recorded at the round window enable the detection of low spontaneous rate fibers in gerbil auditory nerve

C Batrel, A Huet, F Hasselmann, J Wang… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) transmit acoustic information from the sensory hair cells to the
cochlear nuclei. In experimental and clinical audiology, probing the whole ANF population …

The interplay between spike-time and spike-rate modes in the auditory nerve encodes tone-in-noise threshold

A Huet, G Desmadryl, T Justal, R Nouvian… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) encode pure tones through two modes of coding, spike time
and spike rate, depending on the tone frequency. In response to a low-frequency tone, ANF …

Cochlear aging disrupts the correlation between spontaneous rate and sound-level coding in auditory nerve fibers

AN Heeringa, F Teske, G Ashida… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The spiking activity of auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) transmits information about the acoustic
environment from the cochlea to the central auditory system. Increasing age leads to …

Noise-induced hearing loss increases the temporal precision of complex envelope coding by auditory-nerve fibers

KS Henry, S Kale, MG Heinz - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
While changes in cochlear frequency tuning are thought to play an important role in the
perceptual difficulties of people with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), the possible role of …

Contribution of auditory nerve fibers to compound action potential of the auditory nerve

J Bourien, Y Tang, C Batrel, A Huet… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Sound-evoked compound action potential (CAP), which captures the synchronous activation
of the auditory nerve fibers (ANFs), is commonly used to probe deafness in experimental …

An improved model for the rate–level functions of auditory-nerve fibers

P Heil, H Neubauer, DRF Irvine - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Acoustic information is conveyed to the brain by the spike patterns in auditory-nerve fibers
(ANFs). In mammals, each ANF is excited via a single ribbon synapse in a single inner hair …

Diversity matters—extending sound intensity coding by inner hair cells via heterogeneous synapses

T Moser, N Karagulyan, J Neef… - The EMBO Journal, 2023 - embopress.org
Our sense of hearing enables the processing of stimuli that differ in sound pressure by more
than six orders of magnitude. How to process a wide range of stimulus intensities with …

Mechanisms underlying the temporal precision of sound coding at the inner hair cell ribbon synapse

T Moser, A Neef, D Khimich - The Journal of physiology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Our auditory system is capable of perceiving the azimuthal location of a low frequency
sound source with a precision of a few degrees. This requires the auditory system to detect …