A single unit response profile cannot represent a degenerating nerve population

Evidence

However, the cochlear morphology is quite different in humans. The UR may change with stimulation site in the human cochlea and explain in part the cochlear region dependent variation of the CDLD seen in the human dataset. Also our assumption of the same UR across the nerve population might be too coarse (Westen et al. 2011 ), in particular considering location-dependent effects of degeneration, such as demyelination and cell shrinkage. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2435

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly are the UR differences across cochlear regions in humans, and how much of CDLD variation do they explain?