Masking of Electrical by Acoustic Stimuli: Behavioral Evidence for Tonotopic Organization
- 23 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 198 (4323), 1276-1278
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.929201
Abstract
When pure-tone acoustic masking stimuli of various frequencies were presented simultaneously with electrical stimuli applied to cochlear nucleus, only those maskers within a limited frequency range interfered with the detection of the electrical stimuli. The form of the masking functions obtained suggest that the electrical stimulus directly activated only a small population of neurons which were functioning in a tonotopic fashion.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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