Measurement of the distribution of medial olivocochlear acoustic reflex strengths across normal-hearing individuals via otoacoustic emissions

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 484-496

  Backus, Bradford C ^a,b,c   Guinan Jr , John J ^a,b,d  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory efferent reflex; Human; Normative data; Stimulus frequency otoacoustic emission

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEARING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDIAL OLIVOCOCHLEAR ACOUSTIC REFLEX; NOISE; NOISE INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC;

EID: 35848960589     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-007-0100-0     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Backus BC. Bias due to noise in otoacoustic emission measurements. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121:1588-1603, 2007.
2. Backus BC, Guinan JJ Jr. Time-course of the human medial olivocochlear reflex. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119:2889-2904, 2006.
3. Bar-Haim Y, Henkin Y, Ari-Even-Roth D, Tetin-Schneider S, Hildesheimer M, Muchnik C. Reduced auditory efferent activity in childhood selective mutism. Biol. Psychiatry 55:1061-1068, 2004.
4. De Ceulaer G, Yperman M, Daemers K, Van Driessche K, Somers T, Offeciers FE, Govaerts PJ. Contralateral suppression of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions: normative data for a clinical test set-up. Otol. Neurotol. 22:350-355, 2001.
5. Geisler CD. Letter: hypothesis on the function of the crossed olivocochlear bundle. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 56:1908-1909, 1974.
6. Gelfand SA, Piper N. Acoustic reflex thresholds: variability and distribution effects. Ear Hear. 5:228-234, 1984.
7. Guinan JJ Jr. Inhibition of stimulus frequency emissions by medial olivocochlear efferent neurons in cats. Abstr. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 14:129, 1991.
8. Guinan JJ Jr, Backus BC, Lilaonitkul W, Aharonson V. Medial olivocochlear efferent reflex in humans: otoacoustic emission (OAE) measurement issues and the advantages of stimulus frequency OAEs. J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 4:521-540, 2003.
9. Kalluri R, Shera CA. Near equivalence of human click-evoked and stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121:2097-2110, 2007.
10. Kawase T, Delgutte B, Liberman MC. Antimasking effects of the olivocochlear reflex. II. Enhancement of auditory-nerve response to masked tones. J. Neurophysiol. 70:2533-2549, 1993.
11. Kemp DT, Bray P, et al. Acoustic emission cochleography-practical aspects. Scand. Audiol. Suppl. 25:71-95, 1986.
12. Kim DO, Dorn PA, Neely ST, Gorga MP. Adaptation of distortion product otoacoustic emission in humans. J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 2:31-40, 2001.
13. Kumar UA, Vanaja CS. Functioning of olivocochlear bundle and speech perception in noise. Ear Hear. 25:142-146, 2004.
14. Liberman MC, Brown MC. Physiology and anatomy of single olivocochlear neurons in the cat. Hear. Res. 24:17-36, 1986.
15. Maison SF, Liberman MC. Predicting vulnerability to acoustic injury with a noninvasive assay of olivocochlear reflex strength. J. Neurosci. 20:4701-4707, 2000.
16. Maison S, Micheyl C, Andeol G, Gallego S, Collet L. Activation of medial olivocochlear efferent system in humans: influence of stimulus bandwidth. Hear. Res. 140:111-125, 2000.
17. Micheyl C, Collet L. Involvement of the olivocochlear bundle in the detection of tones in noise. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99:1604-1610, 1996.
18. Micheyl C, Morlet T, Giraud AL, Collet L, Morgon A. Contralateral suppression of evoked otoacoustic emissions and detection of a multi-tone complex in noise. Acta Otolaryngol. 115:178-182, 1995.
19. Muller J, Janssen T, Heppelmann G, Wagner W. Evidence for a bipolar change in distortion product otoacoustic emissions during contralateral acoustic stimulation in humans. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118:3747-3756, 2005.
20. Puria S, Guinan JJ Jr, Liberman MC. Olivocochlear reflex assays: effects of contralateral sound on compound action potentials versus ear-canal distortion products. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99:500-507, 1996.
21. Rajan R, Johnstone BM. Crossed cochlear influences on monaural temporary threshold shifts. Hear. Res. 9:279-294, 1983.
22. Reiter ER, Liberman MC. Efferent-mediated protection from acoustic overexposure: relation to slow effects of olivocochlear stimulation. J. Neurophysiol. 73:506-514, 1995.
23. Shera CA, Guinan JJ Jr. Evoked otoacoustic emissions arise by two fundamentally different mechanisms: a taxonomy for mammalian OAEs. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105:782-798, 1999.
24. Talmadge CL, Tubis A, Long GR, Tong C. Modeling the combined effects of basilar membrane nonlinearity and roughness on stimulus frequency otoacoustic emission fine structure. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 108:2911-2932, 2000.
25. Veuillet E, Collet L, Duclaux R. Effect of contralateral acoustic stimulation on active cochlear micromechanical properties in human subjects: dependence on stimulus variables. J. Neurophysiol. 65:724-735, 1991.
26. Wagner W, Heppelmann G, Kuehn M, Tisch M, Vonthein R, Zenner HP. Olivocochlear activity and temporary threshold shift-susceptibility in humans. Laryngoscope 115:2021-2028, 2005.
27. Wagner W, Heppelmann G, Muller J, Janssen T, Zenner HP. Olivocochlear reflex effect on human distortion product otoacoustic emissions is largest at frequencies with distinct fine structure dips. Hear. Res. 223:83-92, 2007.
28. Walsh EJ, McGee J, McFadden SL, Liberman MC. Long-term effects of sectioning the olivocochlear bundle in neonatal cats. J. Neurosci. 18:3859-3869, 1998.
29. Winslow RL, Sachs MB. Single-tone intensity discrimination based on auditory-nerve rate responses in backgrounds of quiet, noise, and with stimulation of the crossed olivocochlear bundle. Hear. Res. 35:165-189, 1988.
30. Zweig G, Shera CA. The origin of periodicity in the spectrum of evoked otoacoustic emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98:2018-2047, 1995.