This model simulates the response of the synapse between the inner hair cell and an auditory nerve fiber to a square voltage pulse applied to the IHC membrane. The model output is average firing rate. More details of this model can be found in: Deligeorges and Mountain.
Model Type: Synapse
Cell Type(s): Cochlea hair outer GLU cell
Model Concept(s): Audition
Simulation Environment: MATLAB
Implementer(s): Mountain, David [dcm at bu.edu]; Deligeorges, S
References:
Deligeorges S, Mountain DC. (1997). A model for periodicity coding in the auditory system. Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research
Singh SP, Mountain DC. (1997). A model for duration coding in the inferior colliculus. Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research