Neural Fluctuation Contrast as a Code for Complex Sounds: The Role and Control of Peripheral Nonlinearities

LH Carney - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The nonlinearities of the inner ear are often considered to be obstacles that the central
nervous system has to overcome to decode neural responses to sounds. This review …

A computational model of auditory chirp-velocity sensitivity and amplitude-modulation tuning in inferior colliculus neurons

PW Mitchell, LH Carney - Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2024 - Springer
We demonstrate a model of chirp-velocity sensitivity in the inferior colliculus (IC) that retains
the tuning to amplitude modulation (AM) that was established in earlier models. The …

Normal behavioral discrimination of envelope statistics in budgerigars with kainate-induced cochlear synaptopathy

KS Henry, AA Guo, KS Abrams - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Cochlear synaptopathy is a common pathology in humans associated with aging and
potentially sound overexposure. Synaptopathy is widely expected to cause “hidden hearing …

Sensitivity to direction and velocity of fast frequency chirps in the inferior colliculus of awake rabbit

PW Mitchell, KS Henry, LH Carney - Hearing Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurons in the mammalian inferior colliculus (IC) are sensitive to the velocity (speed and
direction) of fast frequency chirps contained in Schroeder-phase harmonic complexes …