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Studies of the neuronal response along the auditory pathway to repetitive acoustic stimulation and to phase locking have revealed a loss of temporal resolution in higher stations (Ribaupierre et al., 1972; Rouiller et al., 1979). In particular, the auditory cortex seems to be limited in its ability to follow repetitive temporal changes in the input signal. On the other hand, cortical responses to fast changes in the spectral content or in the amplitude of signals, i. e. ‘transients’, seem to be rather good, as long as they do not follow each other too rapidly (Creutzfeldt et al., 1980).
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Schreiner, C., Urbas, J.V., Mehrgardt, S. (1938). Temporal Resolution of Amplitude Modulation and Complex Signals in the Auditory Cortex of the Cat. In: Klinke, R., Hartmann, R. (eds) HEARING — Physiological Bases and Psychophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69257-4_25
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