Temporal coding of neural responses to acoustic stimuli

Electric responses to acoustic stimuli have been recorded from the auditory nervous system of cats. Responses of single nerve cells in the cochlear nucleus recorded with microelectrodes, and auditory nerve responses recorded with gross electrodes (which record activity of many cells) are presented as examples of the kinds of data which can be obtained. The behavior of these responses for various changes in stimulus parameters is illustrated together with several methods of data analysis. The data presented are from studies in auditory physiology in which one aim is a description of the neural coding of the temporal pattern of acoustic stimuli.