Clean auditory sensation emerges only from pooling many noisy nerve fibres
Evidence
The functionality of an auditory fibre has a stochastic nature; one cannot accurately predict when the fibre fires. Therefore, the signal from a single auditory fibre contains somewhat noisy data, and the outputs of large numbers of fibres need to be combined to form the pure and clean sensation that a normal functional auditory system produces. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1639
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The brain pools many noisy auditory fibers to form clean perception; A single auditory nerve fibre’s firing is unpredictable and noisy — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1639; Loudness coding requires pooled responses across many auditory nerve fibers — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 735 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- The brain pools many noisy auditory fibers to form clean perception
#corroborates(1.00) - Auditory nerve firing is stochastic, requiring many fibres pooled.
#corroborates(1.00) - A single auditory nerve fibre’s firing is unpredictable and noisy
#qualifies(0.85) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1639 - Loudness cannot be explained by single auditory nerve fiber firing alone
#corroborates(0.85) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 731 - Loudness coding requires pooled responses across many auditory nerve fibers
#exemplifies(0.82) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 735 - Auditory nerve fibers maintain stimulus phase but vary absolute spike timing
#qualifies(0.75) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2848