Medial olivocochlear efferent inhibition of basilar-membrane responses to clicks: Evidence for two modes of cochlear mechanical excitation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1080-1092

  Guinan Jr , John J ^a,b   Cooper, Nigel P ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); MAMMALS; SPEED;

AUDITORY-NERVE FIBERS; BASILAR MEMBRANES; BASILAR-MEMBRANE; DECAY RATES; GUINEA PIGS; INNER HAIR CELLS; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCIES; MAMMALIAN COCHLEA; MECHANICAL EXCITATIONS; OUTER HAIR CELLS; TRAVELING WAVES; WAVE FORMS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; GUINEA PIG; INHIBITION KINETICS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GUINEA PIGS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURAL INHIBITION; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49249087410     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2949435     Document Type: Article

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