Fig. 10.

Influence of a subthreshold (a, b) or suprathreshold (c, d) conditioner on probe thresholds for different IPIs, evaluated in a forward-masking paired-pulse paradigm. Both conditioner and probe were 100 µs monophasic cathodic pulses and conditioners were presented at -2.0 dB a, -0.9 dB b, + 0.1 dB c, or + 2.8 dB d relative to the resting threshold of each ANF. The range (blue shaded area) and the median (blue dashed line) of the masked probe thresholds obtained across the ANF population are compared to experimental data from a single ANF [56] (red circles). The different shades of blue indicate quantiles of the simulated data in 11.1 % steps