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Frequency clustering in spontaneous otoacoustic emissions from a lizard's ear.
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- How Exceptional Is the Ear?Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025Review
- Auditory cellular cooperativity probed via spontaneous otoacoustic emissions.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Conditions Underlying the Appearance of Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions in Mammals.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024Review
- Something in Our Ears Is Oscillating, but What? A Modeller's View of Efforts to Model Spontaneous Emissions.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024Review
- Frequency Shifts in a Local Oscillator Model for the Generation of Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions by the Lizard Ear.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2023Article
- Unloading outer hair cell bundles in vivo does not yield evidence of spontaneous oscillations in the mouse cochlea.Hearing research · 2022Article
- Otoacoustic Emissions in Non-Mammals.Audiology research · 2022Review
- Whistling While it Works: Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions and the Cochlear Amplifier.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2022Review
- Diverse Mechanisms of Sound Frequency Discrimination in the Vertebrate Cochlea.Trends in neurosciences · 2020Review
- Chaotic Dynamics Enhance the Sensitivity of Inner Ear Hair Cells.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Bilateral Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions Show Coupling between Active Oscillators in the Two Ears.Biophysical journal · 2019Article
- Reducing tectorial membrane viscoelasticity enhances spontaneous otoacoustic emissions and compromises the detection of low level sound.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A common microstructure in behavioral hearing thresholds and stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2017Article
- Salient features of otoacoustic emissions are common across tetrapod groups and suggest shared properties of generation mechanisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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- All that jazz coming out of my ears.Biophysical journal · 2014Article
- An active oscillator model describes the statistics of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions.Biophysical journal · 2014Article
- Modelling cochlear mechanics.BioMed research international · 2014Review
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Abstract
Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) are indicators of an active process in the inner ear that enhances the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of hearing. They are particularly regular and robust in certain lizards, so these animals are good model organisms for studying how SOAEs are generated. We show that the published properties of SOAEs in the bobtail lizard are wholly consistent with a mathematical model in which active oscillators, with exponentially varying characteristic frequencies, are coupled together in a chain by visco-elastic elements. Physically, each oscillator corresponds to a small group of hair cells, covered by a tectorial sallet, so our theoretical analysis directly links SOAEs to the micromechanics of active hair bundles.
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