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Responses of cat auditory-nerve fibers to natural stop consonant-vowel syllables were described in a recent paper (Carney and Geisler, 1986). In that study, it was found that the temporal characteristics of the responses of fibers with “high” rates of spontaneous discharge (>18 spikes/sec) could often be accounted for qualitatively by the frequency filtering characteristics of the cochlear partition. That is, fibers originating in the apical cochlear regions encoded the lower frequency components of the syllables, such as the first formant, while fibers from more basal regions encoded the higher frequencies. Yet because of the many nonlinear processes known to occur in the inner ear, linear filtering alone could not possibly account for all details of the responses.
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Geisler, C.D., Rossman, P.J. (1986). Comparisons Between Actual and Simulated Responses of Auditory Nerve Fibers Excited by Natural Stop Consonant-Vowel Syllables. In: Moore, B.C.J., Patterson, R.D. (eds) Auditory Frequency Selectivity. Nato ASI Series, vol 119. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2247-4_30
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