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22. Use of stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions to investigate efferent and cochlear contributions to temporal overshoot1

Author

Keefe, Douglas H., Schairer, Kim S., Ellison, John C., Fitzpatrick, Denis F., and Jesteadt, Walt

Subjects
Male, Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer, Young Adult, Time Factors, genetic structures, Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous, Humans, Auditory Threshold, Female, sense organs, Physiological Acoustics [64], Cochlea
Abstract

Behavioral threshold for a tone burst presented in a long-duration noise masker decreases as the onset of the tone burst is delayed relative to masker onset. The threshold difference between detection of early- and late-onset tone bursts is called overshoot. Although the underlying mechanisms are unclear, one hypothesis is that overshoot occurs due to efferent suppression of cochlear nonlinearity [von Klitzing, R., and Kohlrausch, A. (1994). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 2192-2201]. This hypothesis was tested by using overshoot conditions to elicit stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs), which provide a physiological measure of cochlear nonlinearity. SFOAE and behavioral thresholds were estimated using a modified maximum-likelihood yes-no procedure. The masker was a 400-ms "frozen" notched noise. The signal was a 20-ms, 4-kHz tone burst presented at 1 or 200 ms after the noise onset. Behavioral overshoot results replicated previous studies, but no overshoot was observed in SFOAE thresholds. This suggests that either efferent suppression of cochlear nonlinearity is not involved in overshoot, or a SFOAE threshold estimation procedure based on stimuli similar to those used to study behavioral overshoot is not sensitive enough to measure the effect.

Published
2009

34. Wideband absorbance tympanometry using pressure sweeps: System development and results on adults with normal hearing.

Author

Yi-Wen Liu, Sanford, Chris A., Ellison, John C., Fitzpatrick, Denis F., and Gorga, Michael P.

Subjects
AUDITORY perception, BROADBAND communication systems, AIR pressure, IMPEDANCE audiometry, ACOUSTIC impedance, BIOELECTRIC impedance
Abstract

A system with potential for middle-ear screening and diagnostic testing was developed for the measurement of wideband energy absorbance (EA) in the ear canal as a function of air pressure, and tested on adults with normal hearing. Using a click stimulus, the EA was measured at 60 frequencies between 0.226 and 8 kHz. Ambient-pressure results were similar to past studies. To perform tympanometry, air pressure in the ear canal was controlled automatically to sweep between -300 and 200 daPa (ascending/descending directions) using sweep speeds of approximately 75, 100, 200, and 400 daPa/s. Thus, the measurement time for wideband tympanometry ranged from 1.5 to 7 s and was suitable for clinical applications. A bandpass tympanogram, calculated for each ear by frequency averaging EA from 0.38 to 2 kHz, had a single-peak shape; however, its tympanometric peak pressure (TPP) shifted as a function of sweep speed and direction. EA estimated at the TPP was similar across different sweep speeds, but was higher below 2 kHz than EA measured at ambient pressure. Future studies of EA on normal ears of a different age group or on impaired ears may be compared with the adult normal baseline obtained in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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