The burst gap is a peripheral temporal code for pitch perception that is shared across audition and touch

Abstract When tactile afferents were manipulated to fire in periodic bursts of spikes, we discovered that the perceived pitch corresponded to the inter-burst interval (burst gap) in a spike train, rather than the spike rate or burst periodicity as previously thought. Given that tactile frequency mec...

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Main Authors: Deepak Sharma, Kevin K. W. Ng, Ingvars Birznieks, Richard M. Vickery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15269-5