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SUBMITTER: Whiteford KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7556860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Whiteford Kelly L KL Kreft Heather A HA Oxenham Andrew J AJ
eLife 20200930
Natural sounds convey information via frequency and amplitude modulations (FM and AM). Humans are acutely sensitive to the slow rates of FM that are crucial for speech and music. This sensitivity has long been thought to rely on precise stimulus-driven auditory-nerve spike timing (time code), whereas a coarser code, based on variations in the cochlear place of stimulation (place code), represents faster FM rates. We tested this theory in listeners with normal and impaired hearing, spanning a wid ...[more]