Modeling the anti-masking effects of the olivocochlear reflex in auditory nerve responses to tones in sustained noise

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-235

  Chintanpalli, Ananthakrishna ^a   Jennings, Skyler G ^b   Heinz, Michael G ^a,b   Strickland, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Detection; Discrimination; Dynamic range; Efferent; Outer hair cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HAIR CELL; HEARING; NOISE; OLIVOCOCHLEAR REFLEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HUMANS; NOISE; REFLEX;

EID: 84860224991     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-011-0310-3     Document Type: Article

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