METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRODE STIMULATION SIGNAL IN A NEURAL AUDITORY PROSTHESIS

An auditory stimulation signal processing has a plurality of signal inputs adapted to receive a plurality of frequency bin signals, a selection probability value assigner, a random selector, and an electrode stimulation signal generator. The selection probability assigner is adapted to assign a selection probability value to at least one frequency bin signal of the plurality of frequency bin signals. The random selector is adapted to select one frequency bin signal from the plurality of frequency bin signals by means of a random process taking into account the selection probability value assigned to the at least on frequency bin signal. The electrode stimulation generator is adapted to generate an electrode stimulation signal for application to an electrode of a neural auditory prosthesis, the electrode corresponding to a frequency of the selected frequency bin signal. A corresponding method and a computer readable digital storage medium are also disclosed.