Medial efferent inhibition suppresses basilar membrane responses to near characteristic frequency tones of moderate to high intensities

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1734-1738

  Russell, Ian J ^a   Murugasu, Euan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GUINEA PIGS; HAIR CELLS, INNER; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEURONS, EFFERENT; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030846122     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420083     Document Type: Article

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