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A Method to Study Adaptation to Left-Right Reversed Audition
Published on: October 29, 2018
A comparative study of eight human auditory models of monaural processing
Alejandro Osses Vecchi1, Léo Varnet1, Laurel H Carney2
1Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs, Département d'études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
A number of auditory models have been developed using diverging approaches, either physiological or perceptual, but they share comparable stages of signal processing, as they are inspired by the same constitutive parts of the auditory system. We compare eight monaural models that are openly accessible in the Auditory Modelling Toolbox. We discuss the considerations required to make the model outputs comparable to each other, as well as the results for the following model processing stages or their equivalents: Outer and middle ear, cochlear filter bank, inner hair cell, auditory nerve synapse, cochlear nucleus, and inferior colliculus. The discussion includes a list of recommendations for future applications of auditory models.
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