Parallel distribution of an inner hair cell and auditory nerve model for real-time application

This paper summarises recent efforts into implementing a model of the inner hair cell and auditory nerve on a neuromorphic hardware platform, the SpiNNaker machine. Such an implementation exploits the massive parallelism of the target architecture to obtain real-time modelling to a biologically realistic number of human auditory nerve fibres. The potential for incorporating this implementation into a full-scale digital realtime model of the human auditory pathway is then discussed.