ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014
Effect of human auditory efferent feedback on cochlear gain and compression.
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- Effect of Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Feedback on Perceptual Estimates of Cochlear Gain and Compression.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2016Trial
- 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
- The Effects of Broadband Elicitor Duration on Transient-Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions and a Psychoacoustic Measure of Gain Reduction.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025Article
- The effects of broadband elicitor duration on a psychoacoustic measure of cochlear gain reduction.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Efferent Control in Musicians: A Review.Audiology research · 2023Review
- Magnitude of the contralateral efferent olivocochlear effect as a function of the frequency.Journal of otology · 2022Article
- The effect of broadband elicitor laterality on psychoacoustic gain reduction across signal frequency.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- The role of the medial olivocochlear reflex in psychophysical masking and intensity resolution in humans: a review.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Review
- The relationship between ipsilateral cochlear gain reduction and speech-in-noise recognition at positive and negative signal-to-noise ratios.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Correlation and Reliability of Behavioral and Otoacoustic-Emission Estimates of Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Strength in Humans.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Brainstem Representation of Auditory Overshoot in Guinea Pigs Using Auditory Brainstem Responses.Iranian journal of child neurology · 2021Article
- Behavioral Measures of Cochlear Gain Reduction Depend on Precursor Frequency, Bandwidth, and Level.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Pre-exposure to Lower-Level Noise Mitigates Cochlear Synaptic Loss Induced by High-Level Noise.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Article
- The effects of preceding sound and stimulus duration on measures of suppression in younger and older adults.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018Article
- Psychoacoustic measurements of ipsilateral cochlear gain reduction as a function of signal frequency.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018Article
- Olivocochlear Efferents in Animals and Humans: From Anatomy to Clinical Relevance.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Review
- Assessment of Ipsilateral Efferent Effects in HumanFrontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
- The role of compression in the simultaneous masker phase effect.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2016Article
- Medial olivocochlear efferent reflex inhibition of human cochlear nerve responses.Hearing research · 2016Article
- Auditory Time-Frequency Masking for Spectrally and Temporally Maximally-Compact Stimuli.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
The mammalian auditory system includes a brainstem-mediated efferent pathway from the superior olivary complex by way of the medial olivocochlear system, which reduces the cochlear response to sound (Warr and Guinan, 1979; Liberman et al., 1996). The human medial olivocochlear response has an onset delay of between 25 and 40 ms and rise and decay constants in the region of 280 and 160 ms, respectively (Backus and Guinan, 2006). Physiological studies with nonhuman mammals indicate that onset and decay characteristics of efferent activation are dependent on the temporal and level characteristics of the auditory stimulus (Bacon and Smith, 1991; Guinan and Stankovic, 1996). This study uses a novel psychoacoustical masking technique using a precursor sound to obtain a measure of the efferent effect in humans. This technique avoids confounds currently associated with other psychoacoustical measures. Both temporal and level dependency of the efferent effect was measured, providing a comprehensive measure of the effect of human auditory efferents on cochlear gain and compression. Results indicate that a precursor (>20 dB SPL) induced efferent activation, resulting in a decrease in both maximum gain and maximum compression, with linearization of the compressive function for input sound levels between 50 and 70 dB SPL. Estimated gain decreased as precursor level increased, and increased as the silent interval between the precursor and combined masker-signal stimulus increased, consistent with a decay of the efferent effect. Human auditory efferent activation linearizes the cochlear response for mid-level sounds while reducing maximum gain.
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