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Acoustic signal patterns as reflected in the frequency following response of the cat auditory system

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In the source of experiments on unanesthetized cats it was shown that all the essential qualities of acoustic stimuli are expressed in the frequency following response (FFR) peculiar to the lower regions of the auditory system (the inferior colliculus included). Amplitude and wave-form of response largely depend on the frequency and intensity of stimulation, frequency and phasic spectra bands for complex signals, together with their wave form and periodicity, acoustic masking of the "useful" signal, and finally interaural differences in stimulation modelling different spatial positions of the sound source.

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I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 67–74, January–February, 1987.

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Radionova, E.A. Acoustic signal patterns as reflected in the frequency following response of the cat auditory system. Neurophysiology 19, 57–63 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01055996

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