From auditory nerve models to electrophysiological biomarkers of auditory pathologies
The cochlea — the peripheral sensory organ for hearing — encodes sound into action potentials, which are then transmitted via the auditory nerve to the auditory brain for sound processing and analysis. Biophysically realistic computational models of the cochlea and auditory nerve have been developed over several decades and are now well established. Unlike artificial neural networks, these models are grounded in biological realism, replicating the actual stages of sound processing and offering valuable insights into both normal auditory function and its dysfunctions.