ArticleFrontiers in systems neuroscience2014
Olivocochlear efferent function: issues regarding methods and the interpretation of results.
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- A computational model of the mammalian auditory periphery with a closed-loop medial olivocochlear reflex simulating across-channel efferent gain control.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Auditory brainstem mechanisms likely compensate for self-imposed peripheral inhibition.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A Time-Course-Based Estimation of the Human Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Function Using Clicks.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Click-Evoked Auditory Efferent Activity: Rate and Level Effects.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2018Article
- Olivocochlear Efferents in Animals and Humans: From Anatomy to Clinical Relevance.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Review
- Efferent modulation of pre-neural and neural distortion products.Hearing research · 2017Article
- Increased medial olivocochlear reflex strength in normal-hearing, noise-exposed humans.PloS one · 2017Article
- Reflex Modification Audiometry Reveals Dual Roles for Olivocochlear Neurotransmission.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2017Article
- Concurrent measures of contralateral suppression of transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions and of auditory steady-state responses.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2016Article
- The middle ear muscle reflex in the diagnosis of cochlear neuropathy.Hearing research · 2016Article
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- All the way from the cortex: a review of auditory corticosubcollicular pathways.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2015Review
- Olivocochlear Efferent Activity Is Associated With the Slope of the Psychometric Function of Speech Recognition in Noise.Ear and hearingArticle
- The Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Is Unlikely to Play a Role in Listening Difficulties in Children.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
As studies of the olivocochlear (OC) efferent system have matured, issues have been identified that need to be taken into account in the design of new studies and in the interpretation of existing work. The need for high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), multiple alternations of conditions, and avoiding middle-ear-muscle activation have been previously highlighted. Less well-known issues include: Contralateral medial OC (MOC) effects may not be good proxies for ipsilateral (ipsi) MOC effects; MOC-induced changes in otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) may not accurately show MOC-induced changes in auditory-nerve (AN) responses; measuring OAE differences from before to after psychophysical trials yields the transient OAE change but not tonic MOC activation; tonic MOC activation may be measurable by several techniques including by OAE differences in trials in which the subject's judgment was correct vs. trials that were incorrect; SNRs can be preserved by Bootstrap statistical tests; differences in task difficulty may outweigh differences in subject attention; lateral efferent effects are little understood and may be tied to MOC effects; to assess whether MOC strength predicts protection from acoustic trauma, prospective tests in humans are needed.
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