Buried in the noise. Focus on "temporal properties of responses to broadband noise in the auditory nerve".
Buried in the noise. Focus on "temporal properties of responses to broadband noise in the auditory nerve".
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埋没在喧嚣之中。
DOI:
10.1152/jn.01244.2003
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Yin,TomCT
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作者:
Yin,TomCT
The auditory system is faced with two tasks when a sound is heard. One is to identify the sound and the other is to localize it in space. Both tasks depend on the remarkable ability of auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) to synchronize their responses to the temporal envelope or to the fine structure of the sound. For example, to understand speech, we must track the envelopes of speech sounds (Shannon et al. 1995), whereas to determine where a growling bear hidden in the bushes is located, we depend primarily on detecting the small (10–800 μs) interaural time disparities between the signals’ fine structure at the two ears (Wightman and Kistler 1992). ANFs are also tuned in frequency, each with a particular characteristic frequency (CF) that depends on the location along the cochlea of the inner hair cell that innervates it. The coding of the temporal information in the sound depends on the directional polarization of the hair cells in the cochlea. The alternating inward and outward movements of the eardrum in response to the pressure waves of a sound are first encoded by depolarizing and hyperpolarizing currents in the inner hair cells, which are then reflected in the discharge of ANFs as synchronized responses to the temporal fluctuations.In most studies of “phase-locking” of ANFs and more central auditory neurons to the fine structure or to the envelope of sounds, pure tones or amplitude-modulated tones have been used. These studies show that phase-locking to the fine structure is restricted to low-frequency stimuli, in mammals 4–5 kHz (Johnson 1980). At higher frequencies, phase locking to the fine structure is lost due to the membrane capacitance of the hair cell, but if the sound has a time-varying envelope then ANFs will phase lock to the low-frequency envelope, though only up to 1.5 kHz (Joris and Yin 1992). ANFs can also synchronize to more complex signals, such as Gaussian noise. The reverse correlation (or revcor) technique, which has become popular to use in studies of the visual system (Freeman and Ohzawa 1990; Jones and Palmer 1987; Smyth et al. 2003), was first developed (de Boer and Kuyper 1968) to analyze the ability of ANFs to encode the low-frequency components of a broadband noise stimulus. However, this technique is limited by phase locking and cannot reveal the synchronization to the envelope of the noise for ANFs at higher CFs. In this issue, Louage et al.(p. 2051–2065) describe a novel application of a classic analytic tool, autocorrelation, that enabled them to determine not only synchrony to low-frequency fine structure but also the locking to the envelope at high frequencies. Autocorrelograms have been used for some time to study the temporal properties of ANFs (Ruggero 1973). However, traditional autocorrelation techniques are limited to frequencies less than 1.5 kHz by the refractory period of
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DOI:
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发表时间:
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期刊:
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作者:
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