关键词:
Binaural hearing
Acoustic noise
Neurophysiology
Psychophysics
摘要:
In this study the response characteristics of inferior colliculus neurons were investigated. Three types of binaural, high‐frequency stimuli were used: (1) two‐tone complexes, (2) noise bands, and (3) transients. For two‐tone complexes, frequency and depth of modulation were varied. Continuous, binaural, low‐pass, uncorrelated noise was used to mask the difference tone. For high‐frequency transients the low‐pass masker had either a 3 or 5‐kHz upper cutoff frequency. Neurons were found which responded differentially to interaural‐time differences for one or all three of the stimuli employed. This study therefore provides a possible neural correlate of the psychophysical findings that humans can lateralize continuous, complex, high‐frequency stimuli on the basis of interaural time. The data also imply that lateralization of transients may be performed by high‐frequency neurons. [Supported by NIH.]