Pulse-rate discrimination deficit in cochlear implant users: is the upper limit of pitch peripheral or central?

Authors: Zhou N, Mathews J, Dong L Abstract Cochlear implant (CI) users do not reliably associate an increase in pulse rate above 300 pulses per second (pps) with an increase in pitch. The locus of this upper limit of pitch remains unknown. The present study tested the hypothesis that this deficit resides at least initially at the auditory nerve. The hypothesis was tested by comparing pulse rate discrimination in different neural excitation patterns, in which a large versus small population of auditory nerve fibers was activated. If poorer pulse rate discrimination was found under conditions where narrower spread of neural excitation (SOE) was anticipated where a relatively small neural population was activated, then it would support the hypothesis that the rate processing deficit ...

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