Origin of sound-evoked EMG responses in human masseter muscles

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 580, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 195-209

  Deriu, Franca ^a   Ortu, Enzo ^a   Capobianco, Saverio ^a   Giaconi, Elena ^a   Melis, Francesco ^a   Aiello, Elena ^a   Rothwell, John C ^b   Tolu, Eusebio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLICK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INNER EAR; INNER EAR DISEASE; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; WAVEFORM; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MUSCLE REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OTOLOGICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULE;

EID: 33947503439     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.123240     Document Type: Article

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