Showing papers by "Murray B. Sachs published in 1998"
TL;DR: The vowel encoding properties of VCN chopper units support previous interpretations that patterns of auditory nerve convergence on cochlear nucleus neurons compensate for limitations in the dynamic range of peripheral neurons.
Abstract: May, Bradford J., Glenn S. Le Prell, and Murray B. Sachs. Vowel representations in the ventral cochlear nucleus of the cat: effects of level, background noise, and behavioral state. J. Neurophysiol...
70 citations
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the neural representation of speech in normal ears is degraded at high sound levels, such as those used in hearing aids.
45 citations
TL;DR: Frequency shaping effectively limits the upward spread of locking to F1, which improves the representation of higher frequency components of the vowel, but also increases phase locking to harmonics in the trough between the formants, which decreases the contrast between F1 and the trough in the neural representation.
34 citations