Loudness encoding at the auditory nerve

Authors

  • E. Sagi Sensory Communications Group, Inst. of Biomat. and Biomed. Eng., University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada
  • K.H. Norwich Sensory Communications Group, Inst. of Biomat. and Biomed. Eng., University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada
  • H. Kunov Sensory Communications Group, Inst. of Biomat. and Biomed. Eng., University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada

Keywords:

Acoustic intensity, Acoustic intensity measurement, Calculations, Cells, Estimation, Functions, Neurology, Auditory nerve, Cochlea, Loudness, Loudness exponent, Loudness function, Method of magnitude estimation, Sound level, Stereocilia

Abstract

Using a method of magnitude estimation, human participants were required to quantify the loudness of a stimulus tone relative to a reference tone of some fixed level and frequency (or frequencies). After all stimulus tones were presented, the assigned values were normalized such that the reference tone was given a value of 1 `sone'. The obtained data indicates that in every auditory nerver fiber, the loudness becomes encoded in the error intrinsic to the fiber as it samples the sound level of the stimulus one.

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Published

2001-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Sagi E, Norwich K, Kunov H. Loudness encoding at the auditory nerve. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2001 Sep. 1 [cited 2025 Feb. 19];29(3):36-7. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/1375

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 3 (2001)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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