Linear combination of auditory steady-state responses evoked by co-modulated tones

J Acoust Soc Am. 2017 Oct;142(4):EL395. doi: 10.1121/1.5007757.

Abstract

Up to medium intensities and in the 80-100-Hz region, the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) to a multi-tone carrier is commonly considered to be a linear sum of the dipoles from each tone specific ASSR generator. Here, this hypothesis was investigated when a unique modulation frequency is used for all carrier components. Listeners were presented with a co-modulated dual-frequency carrier (1 and 4 kHz), from which the modulator starting phase Φi of the 1-kHz component was systematically varied. The results support the hypothesis of a linear superposition of the dipoles originating from different frequency specific ASSR generators.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't