Hyperacuity in the Auditory System

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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
PI: PI Michael Reed
Effective Dates: 2001/08-2007/08
Amount: $382,508

Description: The purpose of this project is to understand how groups of neurons in the auditory brainstem can perform very precise time comparisons even though auditory nerve neurons are very sloppy timers. This leads naturally to various interesting and difficult questions in probability theory..