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An active oscillator model describes the statistics of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions.
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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
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- A universal description of stochastic oscillators.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Frequency Shifts in a Local Oscillator Model for the Generation of Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions by the Lizard Ear.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2023Article
- Whistling While it Works: Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions and the Cochlear Amplifier.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2022Review
- Chaotic Dynamics Enhance the Sensitivity of Inner Ear Hair Cells.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Reducing tectorial membrane viscoelasticity enhances spontaneous otoacoustic emissions and compromises the detection of low level sound.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- 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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Abstract
Even in the absence of external stimulation, the cochleas of most humans emit very faint sounds below the threshold of hearing, sounds that are known as spontaneous otoacoustic emissions. They are a signature of the active amplification mechanism in the cochlea. Emissions occur at frequencies that are unique for an individual and change little over time. The statistics of a population of ears exhibit characteristic features such as a preferred relative frequency distance between emissions (interemission intervals). We propose a simplified cochlea model comprising an array of active nonlinear oscillators coupled both hydrodynamically and viscoelastically. The oscillators are subject to a weak spatial disorder that lends individuality to the simulated cochlea. Our model captures basic statistical features of the emissions: distributions of 1), emission frequencies; 2), number of emissions per ear; and 3), interemission intervals. In addition, the model reproduces systematic changes of the interemission intervals with frequency. We show that the mechanism for the preferred interemission interval in our model is the occurrence of synchronized clusters of oscillators.
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