A mathematical analysis of spatiotemporal summation of auditory nerve firings

Abstract

Many theories of hearing hypothesize that spatiotemporal combination of single-fiber activity forms an important feature of the auditory system. One mechanism which has been proposed to explain perceptual performance is spatiotemporal summation of Auditory Nerve (AN) firings. Anatomical and physiological studies have found a number of different cell types in the Cochlear Nucleus (CN) which appear to perform such summations. The purpose of this …