The study presents the application of a purely conductance-based stochastic nerve fibre model to human auditory nerve fibres within finite element volume conduction models of a semi-generic head and user-specific cochleae. ...

Recordings of elephant vocalisations can be used to determine the size and composition of the herd, the sexual state, as well as the emotional condition of an elephant. Manual analysis of recordings (by listening to these ...

Manipulation of cochlear implant (CI) place pitch was carried out with current steering by stimulating two CI electrodes sequentially. The objective was to investigate whether shifts in activated neural populations could ...

Facial nerve stimulation (FNS) is a side-effect of cochlear implantation that can result in severe discomfort for the user and essentially limits the optimal use of the implant. Three-dimensional cochlear implant modelling ...

Literature often refers to a 300 pps limit for cochlear implant (CI) electrical stimulation above which pulse rate discrimination deteriorates or above which rate pitch is not perceived to increase. The present study ...

In 1952, Hodgkin and Huxley published an empirical set of equations describing changes in the neural membrane potential of the squid giant axon during the application of depolarizing or hyperpolarizing stimuli. As these ...

The importance of formants and spectral shape was investigated for vowel perception in severe noise. Twelve vowels were synthesized using two different synthesis methods, one where the original spectral detail was ...

The present study explored the acoustic characteristics of prosodic cues that indicate a speaker’s reluctance when giving permission or agreement using a single word (“okay”). Eight speakers (four male, four female) ...