Cochlear models ("Meddis, Raymond" )


Subject: Cochlear models
From:    "Meddis, Raymond"  <rmeddis(at)ESSEX.AC.UK>
Date:    Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:42:05 -0000

Cochlear models *************** Ismail Uysal wrote: "I am looking for a cochlear model which I can use to generate spike trains using speech signals. My input is going to be a speech sound file(a simple vowel) and I want my output to be the spike activity of neurons in frequency sensitive channels in the cochlea." The Essex University team can help with free modelling software and off-the-shelf models. Go to our web site http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/hearinglab/ and select 'Modellers' Corner'. You will find both modelling software (i.e. DSAM, an environement for building and running models). This can be dowloaded and is self-installing on a PC. You can also download a complete tutorial explaining how to get started and how to build and run models of the auditory periphery that generate (among other things) auditory nerve spike activity in frequency-selective channels. The tutorial package contains complete auditory models that can be used immediately (or quickly customised) to meet the requirement for speech studies. There are facilities for controlling the models from MATLAB and an illustrative MATLAB GUI is also posted on the site. After researchers have installed the software, worked through the tutorials and refined their idea of what they need, we are often able to help refine models for particular uses to get folks going. We underestand that the first few weeks with novel software are the most difficult and we offer email support to get you through that period. No software is perfect and we offer no warranty but the DSAM software is in use in many laboratories around the world and we are keen to make it available to as many people as possible. Ray Meddis


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