A mechanoelectrical mechanism for detection of sound envelopes in the hearing organ.
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SUBMITTER: Nuttall AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177430 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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A mechanoelectrical mechanism for detection of sound envelopes in the hearing organ.
Nuttall Alfred L AL Ricci Anthony J AJ Burwood George G Harte James M JM Stenfelt Stefan S Cayé-Thomasen Per P Ren Tianying T Ramamoorthy Sripriya S Zhang Yuan Y Wilson Teresa T Lunner Thomas T Moore Brian C J BCJ Fridberger Anders A
Nature communications 20181009 1
To understand speech, the slowly varying outline, or envelope, of the acoustic stimulus is used to distinguish words. A small amount of information about the envelope is sufficient for speech recognition, but the mechanism used by the auditory system to extract the envelope is not known. Several different theories have been proposed, including envelope detection by auditory nerve dendrites as well as various mechanisms involving the sensory hair cells. We used recordings from human and animal in ...[more]
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