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A number of schemes for the encoding of complex stimuli in populations of auditory-nerve fibers have been studied in the past decade. These schemes differ in their assumptions about which aspects of auditory nerve fiber spike trains encode signal strength. Rate-place codes represent spectral features, such as the formants of speech, in terms of the distribution of average discharge rate across fiber best frequency (BF) (Kiang and Moxon, 1974; Sachs and Young, 1979; Delgutte and Kiang, 1984). Temporal-place codes make use of the fine temporal details (phase-locking) of the auditory-nerve spike patterns to represent stimulus features (Young and Sachs, 1979; Reale and Geisler, 1980; Delgutte and Kiang, 1984a).
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Sachs, M.B., Young, E.D., Winslow, R.L., Shofner, W.P. (1986). Some Aspects of Rate Coding in the Auditory Nerve. In: Moore, B.C.J., Patterson, R.D. (eds) Auditory Frequency Selectivity. Nato ASI Series, vol 119. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2247-4_14
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