PowerPoint Presentation - Temporal resolution


	We refer to the time over which the auditory system averages firing rate the �temporal window�. As the sound passes through the temporal window, all of the response that fits into the window at one time gets averaged. I�ve shown this in terms of the time waveform of a sound, but remember it is really the firing rate of auditory nerve fibers that is getting averaged.

	Notice that the average firing rate �captures� the decrease in intensity in the second �window�, but it misses some of the shorter decreases in the intensity that occur in the last 3 windows.