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ArticleJournal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO2015

Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions Provide No Evidence for the Role of Efferents in the Enhancement Effect.

Jordan A Beim, Maxwell Elliott, Andrew J Oxenham, Magdalena Wojtczak

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Article in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Mechanisms of auditory enhancement in younger and older adults.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025
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  4. Neural auditory contrast enhancement in humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  5. Perceptual Weighting of Binaural Lateralization Cues across Frequency Bands.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2020
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  9. Auditory Enhancement in Cochlear-Implant Users Under Simultaneous and Forward Masking.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jordan A BeimDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
Maxwell ElliottDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
Andrew J OxenhamDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
Magdalena WojtczakDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. wojtc001@umn.edu.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Dynamic Effects in Peripheral Auditory ProcessingR01DC010374 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI WOJTCZAK, MAGDALENA · 2010 to 2014
$1.8M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC 010374NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC010374
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Auditory enhancement refers to the perceptual phenomenon that a target sound is heard out more readily from a background sound if the background is presented alone first. Here we used stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) to test the hypothesis that activation of the medial olivocochlear efferent system contributes to auditory enhancement effects. The SFOAEs were used as a tool to measure changes in cochlear responses to a target component and the neighboring components of a multitone background between conditions producing enhancement and conditions producing no enhancement. In the "enhancement" condition, the target and multitone background were preceded by a precursor stimulus with a spectral notch around the signal frequency; in the control (no-enhancement) condition, the target and multitone background were presented without the precursor. In an experiment using a wideband multitone stimulus known to produce significant psychophysical enhancement effects, SFOAEs showed no changes consistent with enhancement, but some aspects of the results indicated possible contamination of the SFOAE magnitudes by the activation of the middle-ear-muscle reflex. The same SFOAE measurements performed using narrower-band stimuli at lower sound levels also showed no SFOAE changes consistent with either absolute or relative enhancement despite robust psychophysical enhancement effects observed in the same listeners with the same stimuli. The results suggest that cochlear efferent control does not play a significant role in auditory enhancement effects.

Indexed as

AdultAuditory PathwaysCochleaEfferent PathwaysFemaleHumansMaleNeurons, EfferentOtoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneousauditory enhancementcochlear gainmedial olivocochlear reflex

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PMID26153415
PMCPMC4569610
OpenAlexW956954526

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