ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the coding of information in the auditory nerve. This is usually measured by monitoring the electrical responses of individual neurons or the compound output of the nerve ‘‘as a whole’’ during the presentation of various (usually acoustic) stimuli. The resulting observations suggest how various parameters of sound are represented in this primary stage of the auditory nervous system. Moreover, as we have already seen in previous chapters, responses from the auditory nerve have also been used as a window for observing cochlear processes.
