title: Time-domain modeling of peripheral auditory processing: a modular architecture and a software platform.
abstract: A software package with a modular architecture has been developed to support perceptual modeling of the fine-grain spectro-temporal information observed in the auditory nerve. The package contains both functional and physiological modules to simulate auditory spectral analysis, neural encoding, and temporal integration, including new forms of periodicity-sensitive temporal integration that generate stabilized auditory images. Combinations of the modules enable the user to approximate a wide variety of existing, time-domain, auditory models. Sequences of auditory images can be replayed to produce cartoons of auditory perceptions that illustrate the dynamic response of the auditory system to everyday sounds.
authors.affiliation: MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Patterson
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Allerhand
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giguère
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception; D001489:Basilar Membrane; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000502:physiology; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D012984:Software; D013997:Time Factors