Abstract
One of the masker stimuli investigated by Houtgast, viz. the “rippled noise” (or “repetition noise” (Boerger, this symposium) or “noise with its repetition after a delay x” (Bilsen et al, 1970)), has been the main stimulus in electrophysiological experiments by ten Kate et al. (1973, 1974) on the neural coding of Repetition Pitch-stimuli. In their experiments the average spike rate SR(τ of cochlear nucleus units in cat is registrated with a PDP 8-computer as a function of the delay time τ (τ equals “relative ripple density “or “harmonic number”). In fig. 1 such a registration SR(τ) from a “chopper” neuron is represented. The spike rate has relative maxima at τ= n/CF (CF is the characteristic frequency of the unit; n is a positive integer).
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Bilsen, F.A. (1974). Comments on: Masking patterns and lateral inhibition (T. Houtgast). In: Zwicker, E., Terhardt, E. (eds) Facts and Models in Hearing. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65902-7_35
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