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Non-simultaneous auditory masking in the goldfish, Carassius auratus
Arthur N. Popper,Nancy L. Clarke +1 more
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It is suggested that the most significant factor affecting masking was the duration of the interval between tone and noise, and that the site for the interactions between signals is central to the inner ear.Abstract:
Auditory thresholds were determined for 500 HZ pure tone pulses of 15, 25 and 50 ms duration presented leading, following or simultaneously with noise pulses of 50 or 250 ms duration. Masking by the noise decreased: (i) with an increase in tone pulse duration; (ii) with a shortening of the noise pulse duration; and (iii) as the interval between tone and noise pulses was increased from 0 to 350 ms. The effect of the noise was independent of whether the noise led or followed the pure tone. It is suggested that the most significant factor affecting masking was the duration of the interval between tone and noise, and that the site for the interactions between signals is central to the inner ear.read more
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TL;DR: It is concluded that backward masking is mainly due to interactions at the level of the filter outputs, and that in forward masking, in addition to a short‐term component, a long-term component is distinguishable.
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Coding of information in single auditory-nerve fibers of the goldfish.
TL;DR: Patterns of activity in single fibers of the saccular branch of the auditory nerve of goldfish were analyzed in response to acoustic stimulation to show that frequency is coded temporally with the same precision in the goldfish auditory nerve that it is in mammals, at 1000 Hz and below.
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Acoustic intensity limens in the goldfish.
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