title: Assessment of the limits of neural phase-locking using mass potentials.
abstract: In the diverse mechanosensory systems that animals evolved, the waveform of stimuli can be encoded by phase locking in spike trains of primary afferents. Coding of the fine structure of sounds via phase locking is thought to be critical for hearing. The upper frequency limit of phase locking varies across species and is unknown in humans. We applied a method developed previously, which is based on neural adaptation evoked by forward masking, to analyze mass potentials recorded on the cochlea and auditory nerve in the cat. The method allows us to separate neural phase locking from receptor potentials. We find that the frequency limit of neural phase locking obtained from mass potentials was very similar to that reported for individual auditory nerve fibers. The results suggest that this is a promising approach to examine neural phase locking in humans with normal or impaired hearing or in other species for which direct recordings from primary afferents are not feasible.
authors: Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, KU Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, and.
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Verschooten
authors: Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, KU Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, and Program of Physiology and Biophysics, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Independencia 1027, Santiago.
authors: Luis
authors: L
authors: Robles
authors: Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, KU Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, and Philip.Joris@med.kuleuven.be.
authors: Philip X
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9759-5375
authors: PX
authors: Joris
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D003051:Cochlea / Q000502:physiology*; D003056:Cochlear Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010470:Perceptual Masking
keywords: auditory; auditory nerve; cochlea; cochlear microphonic; neurophonic; phase locking
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