Clicks evoke oscillatory multi-peaked neural responses even for temporally precise stimulation

Evidence

Measurements of click latency provided reliable measures of conduction delay (Köppl and Carr 2008 ; Wagner et al. 2005 ), because click stimuli were temporally precise. Nevertheless, click stimuli evoked an oscillatory response (Ruggero et al. 1986 ; Wagner et al. 2005 ; Wagner et al. 2009 ), in which typically several peaks and troughs could be distinguished (Fig. 1b ). Neurophonic responses to ipsiand contralateral clicks at best ITDs at or near 0 μs generated similar ipsiand contralateral click responses, which largely overlapped (Fig. 1b ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2854

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The oscillatory click response echoes phase-locking behavior discussed in auditory nerve literature (Anderson, Sachs, Joris).
• QUESTION: Why does a single click produce multiple oscillatory peaks — membrane resonance or network reverberation?

Related

• Oscillatory click responses arise from phase-locked spikes separated by one period of best frequency (similarity 0.84)
• Auditory nerve spike peaks repeat at intervals set by the neuron’s best frequency (similarity 0.84)
• Neural ITD maps require precise phase delays, not stable absolute latency (similarity 0.83)
• Octopus cells fire one spike per click up to 700 clicks per second (similarity 0.82)
• Auditory nerve spike PSTH peaks recur at 2π phase intervals tied to best frequency (similarity 0.82)
• Click-evoked response latencies reliably measure axonal conduction delays (similarity 0.80)
• Auditory nerve fibers maintain stimulus phase but vary absolute spike timing (similarity 0.79)
• Click stimuli achieve neural timing precision of about twenty microseconds (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Oscillatory click responses arise from phase-locked spikes separated by one period of best frequency #expands (0.90) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2848
• Pooled across fibers, spike timing codes the stimulus period as a multiple #expands (0.75) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1210