Theory of Temporal Auditory Summation
- 1 August 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 32 (8) , 1046-1060
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1908276
Abstract
A theory of temporal auditory summation is developed and applied to the threshold of audibility for various temporal patterns of pulses and sinusoidal vibrations. The theory is based on the assumption of an exponential decay of neural excitation and, for the threshold of audibility, it includes only one time constant. Various factors that may affect temporal auditory summation are discussed. It is shown that the same theory applies to muscle contractions.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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