BAUMGARTNER2016_COMPARISONPROCESS
Comparison with direction-specific templates

Usage:

sigma = baumgartner2016_comparisonprocess(tar,tem)

Input parameters:

`tar`	discharge rate profiles of target sounds (fields: tar.m for magnitude and tar.sd for standard deviation)
`tem`	discharge rate profiles of templates (fields as for tar)

Output parameters:

sigma

internal distance metric

Description:

baumgartner2016_comparisonprocess(...) compares discharge rate profiles on the basis of the quotient between rate difference and auditory nerve variance (May and Huang, 1997; Reiss et al., 2011)

References:

B. J. May and A. Y. Huang. Spectral cues for sound localization in cats: A model for discharge rate representation in the auditory nerve. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101:2705--2719, 1997.

L. A. J. Reiss, R. Ramachandran, and B. J. May. Effects of signal level and background noise on spectral representations in the auditory nerve of the domestic cat. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 12(1):71--88, 2011. [ DOI ]