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Reverse-correlation methods in auditory research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

J. J. Eggermont ,
P. I. M. Johannesma  and
A. M. H. J. Aertsen
J. J. Eggermont
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
P. I. M. Johannesma
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
A. M. H. J. Aertsen
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Single unit recordings have provided us with a basis for understanding the auditory system, especially about how it behaves under stimulation with simple sounds such as clicks and tones. The experimental as well as the theoretical approach to single unit studies has been dichotomous. One approach, the more familiar, gives a representation of nervous system activity in the form of peri-stimulus-time (PST) histograms, period histograms, iso-intensity rate curves and frequency tuning curves. This approach observes the neural output of units in the various nuclei in the auditory nervous system, and, faced with the random way in which the neurons respond to sound, proceeds by repeatedly presenting the same stimulus in order to obtain averaged results. These are the various histogram procedures (Gerstein & Kiang, 1960; Kiang et al. 1965).

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , August 1983 , pp. 341 - 414
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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