Nonlinearities in the coding of intensity within the context of a temporal summation model
作者:
M. J. Penner,
R. M. Shiffrin,
期刊:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(AIP Available online 1980)
卷期:
Volume 67,
issue 2
页码: 617-627
ISSN:0001-4966
年代: 1980
DOI:10.1121/1.383885
出版商: Acoustical Society of America
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A model of temporal summation and intensity coding relates the subject’s internal percepty(t) to the stimulus inputx(t) by the equationy(t) =g{Ft−∞ f[x(τ)]h[t,τ,x(τ)] dτ}. In words, some transformationf[x(t)] of the stimulus intensity is weighted by a functionhand integrated; the result is transformed into the internal percept by a functiong. This system postulates a linear integral operator preceded and followed by transformations which may be nonlinear. Based on forward masking of clicks by white noise, we (1) show that the above characterization of the model is appropriate (which involves showing that there is a linear temporal summation stage), and (2) derive certain characteristics of the system’s nonlinearities. In particular, the integral ofhtimesfis shown to be a nonlinear function of the input intensity exhibiting more compression than a power function. It is also shown thathmust depend upon the intensity of the stimulus.
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