Distortion product emissions from a cochlear model with nonlinear mechanoelectrical transduction in outer hair cells

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2420-2432

  Liu, Yi Wen ^a   Neely, Stephen T ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILAR MEMBRANES; COCHLEAR MODEL; DISPLACEMENT RESPONSE; DISTORTION PRODUCT; HUMAN COCHLEAS; HUMAN EAR; MECHANOELECTRICAL TRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE VOLTAGE; MODEL PARAMETERS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; OUTER HAIR CELL; TESTING HYPOTHESIS; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; MAMMALS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954081559     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3337233     Document Type: Article

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