Auditory process in animals

[Ross C]

Please could you recommend any reading about audition in biology (in the cochlea, and also transmission along the nerves to the brain) as seen in engineering terms?

In particular, I was curious about how the tradeoff between time and frequency is relevant to the way the signal is picked up within the cochlea and the way the nerves fire. I’d like to know what information is available to the brain about time and frequency.

I’m coming from an A Level in Biology including plenty about cells and a bit about neurons/synapses.

[Simon]

A very interesting topic. I’m not going to answer this now, but ask you to ask this question again in Module 7, when we will use knowledge of human hearing to motivate feature extraction for Automatic Speech Recognition.

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