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volley1 CONSTRUCTVolley theoryWEVER-BRAY · 1930

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Auditory neuroscience

groups of auditory nerve fibres firing in staggered volleys so together they track frequencies too high for one fibre.

In hearing science the volley principle explains how the auditory nerve encodes sound frequencies higher than any single neuron can follow: groups of fibres fire in staggered volleys, each on a different cycle, so their combined discharge tracks the stimulus frequency even though no one fibre fires every cycle. Wever and Bray's 1930 The nature of acoustic response provided foundational evidence linking nerve-impulse timing to sound frequency. The referent is a population timing code in the auditory system, measured in impulses locked to a waveform, unrelated to a volley of gunfire or a tennis stroke.[1]

Unit
The combined firing of neuron groups phase-locked to a sound's cycles
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by phase-locking and inter-spike timing in auditory-nerve recordings relative to stimulus frequency

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References

  1. Wever, E. G., & Bray, C. W. (1930). The nature of acoustic response: The relation between sound frequency and frequency of impulses in the auditory nerve. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 13(5), 373–387. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0075820

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