Auditory nerve adaptation operates like automatic gain control.

Evidence

The various adaptation models, described, for instance, by Dau et al. (1996), Lyon (1982), and Seneff (1988), can be considered to be based on the idea of automatic gain control (AGC) that slowly reduces the amplification as the level of the input increases. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1624

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that neural adaptation models share an AGC functional basis.