A computational auditory nerve (AN) model was developed for use in modeling psychophysical experiments with normal and impaired human listeners. In this phenomenological model, many physiologically vulnerable response properties associated with the cochlear amplifier are represented by a single nonlinear control mechanism, see paper for details. Several model versions are described that can be used to evaluate the relative effects of these nonlinear properties.
Cell Type(s): Auditory nerve
Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Temporal Pattern Generation; Audition
Simulation Environment: C or C++ program; MATLAB
Implementer(s): Zhang, Xuedong
References:
Carney LH, Zhang X, Heinz MG, Bruce IC. (2001). Auditory nerve model for predicting performance limits of normal and impaired listeners. Acoustics Research Letters Online. 2(3)