Band-enhanced rate contrast for vowels resists noise and level changes

Evidence

The strong contrast in rate across frequency channels for the band-enhanced responses is robust across SPLs and in background noise (Carney et al. 2015 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5472

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the noise-robustness puzzle in the intro: midbrain fluctuation-contrast coding stays robust where AN rate coding fails.