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Interactions between hair cells shape spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in a model of the tokay gecko's cochlea.
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- A Time-Domain Model for the Generation of Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions in Resonant Cavities.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026Article
- 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
- The mechanisms of frequency tuning in gecko auditory hair cells.Hearing research · 2025Review
- 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
- Otoacoustic Emissions in Non-Mammals.Audiology research · 2022Review
- Atypical tuning and amplification mechanisms in gecko auditory hair cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- 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
- Frequency locking in auditory hair cells: Distinguishing between additive and parametric forcing.Europhysics letters · 2016Article
- 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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- Spatial irregularities of sensitivity along the organ of Corti of the cochlea.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014Article
- An active oscillator model describes the statistics of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions.Biophysical journal · 2014Article
- A mean-field approach to elastically coupled hair bundles.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2012Article
- A resonance approach to cochlear mechanics.PloS one · 2012Review
- Comparison of otoacoustic emissions within gecko subfamilies: morphological implications for auditory function in lizards.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2011Article
- A critique of the critical cochlea: Hopf--a bifurcation--is better than none.Journal of neurophysiology · 2010Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe hearing of tetrapods including humans is enhanced by an active process that amplifies the mechanical inputs associated with sound, sharpens frequency selectivity, and compresses the range of responsiveness. The most striking manifestation of the active process is spontaneous otoacoustic emission, the unprovoked emergence of sound from an ear. Hair cells, the sensory receptors of the inner ear, are known to provide the energy for such emissions; it is unclear, though, how ensembles of such cells collude to power observable emissions. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL
findingsWe have measured and modeled spontaneous otoacoustic emissions from the ear of the tokay gecko, a convenient experimental subject that produces robust emissions. Using a van der Pol formulation to represent each cluster of hair cells within a tonotopic array, we have examined the factors that influence the cooperative interaction between oscillators. CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE: A model that includes viscous interactions between adjacent hair cells fails to produce emissions similar to those observed experimentally. In contrast, elastic coupling yields realistic results, especially if the oscillators near the ends of the array are weakened so as to minimize boundary effects. Introducing stochastic irregularity in the strength of oscillators stabilizes peaks in the spectrum of modeled emissions, further increasing the similarity to the responses of actual ears. Finally, and again in agreement with experimental findings, the inclusion of a pure-tone external stimulus repels the spectral peaks of spontaneous emissions. Our results suggest that elastic coupling between oscillators of slightly differing strength explains several properties of the spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in the gecko.
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