“…For example, the phenomenological auditory-nerve (AN) model of Zilany, Bruce, and Carney (2014), hereafter the ZBC model, has been used extensively by several groups in recent years to pursue a wide range of psychophysical and physiological questions (Carney and McDonough, 2019;Bianchi et al, 2019;Maxwell et al, 2020;Saddler et al, 2021;Polonenko and Maddox, 2021;Zaar and Carney, 2022;Guest and Oxenham, 2022;Feather et al, 2022;Carney et al, 2023;Hamza et al, 2023;Lindboom et al, 2023;Brennan et al, 2023). Differences among models often reflect differences in the underlying goals of those who build them (Osses et al, 2022).…”