Topic: Neurograms

Speech perception degrades in background noise, which is primarily caused by an inability to identify the consonants. In this study, we aim to determine how different consonants are represented in the spiking patterns of auditory nerve fibers and how these representations are affected when presented in speech-shaped background noise.Single-unit auditory nerve fiber recordings were collected from fourteen normal-hearing young-adult gerbils, using glass electrodes. Three different naturally-spoken vowel-consonant-vowel constructs were presented in quiet and in background noise at 5 dB SNR, imita