Here's what he says, with a bit of reconstructed LaTeX style thrown in for the equation:Inspired by interest in this Johannesma paper and by my really poor old scan, I sought out an actual original copy of the informal proceedings of that IPO meeting "Hearing Theory 1972". It's got a lot of good stuff in it, which I can now make more readable scans of (the original is from poor typewritten pages to start with, so it's still not great).Many of you may know that the requested paper is the one widely cited as the origin of the formula for a gammatone. I still don't see much clue for how Johannesma came up with it. Perhaps he was familiar enough with Laplace transform theory that such a form seemed natural to him? Does anyone know his background?
The waveform could be well approximated through$$ R(\tau) \approx c \left(\frac{\tau - \alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\gamma - 1}
e^{-\frac{\tau - \alpha}{\beta}} \sin(\omega_0 \tau + \phi) $$ (17)The form of $R(\tau)$ is not in an obvious way related with the type of neuroncharacterised by the PSTH on CF tone-bursts (Pfeiffer, 1966). The qualityof $R(\tau)$ seems clearly related with the amount of phase-lock in tone-burstresponse and with cell-type (compare Lavine, 1971). $R(\tau)$ forms the averagevalue of the PRSE. ...with these refs:Pfeiffer, R.R. (1966): Classification of response patterns of spikedischarges for units in the cochlear nucleus: tone burst stimulation,Exp. Brain Res. 1, 220-235.Lavine, R.A. (1971): Phase-locking in response of single neurons incochlear nuclear complex of the cat to low-frequency tonal stimuli,J. Neurophysiol. 34, 467-483.
here's the TOC:
5 F.A. Bilsen
Pitch of Dichotically Delayed Noise
9 G. van den Brink
The Influence of Fatigue upon the Pitch of Pure
Tones and Complex Sounds
16 H. Duifhuis
Peripheral Aspects of Non-Simultaneous Masking
27 E.F. Evans
Does Frequency Sharpening Occur in the Cochlea?
35 H. Fastl
Temporal Effects in Masking
42 L.M. Grobben
Pitch and Power Spectra of Short Tone Pulses
SO T. Houtgast
Psychophysical Experiments on Grating Acuity
58 P.I.M. Johannesma
The Pre-Response Stimulus Ensemble of Neurons in
the Cochlear Nucleus
70 H.R. de Jongh
About Coding in the VIIIth Nerve
78 L.J.J. Lamore
Perception of Octave Complexes
90 A.R. Moller
Coding of AM and FM Sounds in Cochlear Nucleus
96 B.C.J. Moore
Audibility of Partials in a Complex Tone, in Relation
to the Pitch of the Complex as a Whole
105 A Rakowski
Direct Comparison of Absolute and Relative Pitch
109 M. Rodenburg
Intensity Discrimination of Noise Bands as a
Function of Bandwidth and Duration
115 B. Scharf
Frequency Selectivity and Sound Localization
123 M.R. Schroeder
An Integrable Model for the Basilar Membrane
135 C.R. Steele
Analysis of Fluid-Elastic Interaction in Cochlea
142 E. Terhardt
Frequency and Time Resolution of the Ear in Pitch
Perception of Complex Tones
154 I.e. Whitfield
The Relation .of the Medial Geniculate Body to
the Tonotopic Organization of the Auditory Pathway
161 F.L. Wightman
Pitch as Auditory Pattern Recognition
172 J.P. Wilson and J.R. Johnstone
Capacitive Probe Measures of Basilar Membrane
Vibration
182 E. Zwicker
Investigation of the Inner Ear of the Domestic
Pig and the Squirrel Monkey with Special Regard to
the Hydromechanics of the Cochlear Duct
186 J.L. Goldstein
Evidence from Aural Combination Tones and Musical
Tones against Classical Periodicity Theory
209 List of ParticipantsOn Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Richard F. Lyon <dicklyon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I am sending a copy.
DickOn Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:10 PM, windok02 <windok02@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everyone, I am a researcher in speech analysis, and I have tried to search for a paper but can not find it on the Web:"P I M Johannesma, The pre-response stimulus esemble of neurons in the cochlear nucleus"(In Symposium on Hearing Theory, 1972)Therefore, I write for help to see whether anyone has a file of the paper.Thanks in advance!Yours,X. D. ZhuangPh. D., WSEAS Research Dept., Athens, GREECE