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End date: 1998 × Start date: 1990 × Subject: action potentials × Subject: cochlear implant × Subject: electrical stimulation × Subject: otolaryngology ×

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    Electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve with a cochlear implant and the temporal coding of sound frequencies: a brief review
    Clark, Graeme M. ( 1997)
    There is considerable evidence that the brain translates (encodes) the frequency of a sound into both place of excitation (place encoding), and the pattern of intervals between action potentials (temporal encoding). Furthermore, temporal encoding is now thought to be due to a temporal as well as spatial pattern of action potentials in a small group of neurons. This pattern needs to be reproduced with a cochlear implant for improved speech processing. Our recent research has also demonstrated that the timing of excitatory postsynaptic potentials seen with intracellular recordings from brain cells, rather than extracellularly recorded action potentials, correlates better with the frequency of sound. These excitatory postsynaptic potentials are likely to be the link between the patterns of action potentials arriving at nerve cells and the biomolecular activity in the cell. This response also needs to be replicated with improved speech processing strategies.