Are human spontaneous otoacoustic emissions generated by a chain of coupled nonlinear oscillators?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 918-926

  Wit, Hero P ^a   Van Dijk, Pim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; LINEAR ARRAYS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR COUPLING; NON-LINEAR OSCILLATORS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; TIME;

COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLOMETRY; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865069420     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4730886     Document Type: Article

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