Trial reportJournal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO2016
Effect of Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Feedback on Perceptual Estimates of Cochlear Gain and Compression.
Trial report in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 2016. 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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- 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
- 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
- Behavioral Measures of Cochlear Gain Reduction Depend on Precursor Frequency, Bandwidth, and Level.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Correlation and Reliability of Behavioral and Otoacoustic-Emission Estimates of Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Strength in Humans.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- 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
- Evidence for Gain Reduction by a Precursor in an On-Frequency Forward Masking Paradigm.Acta acustica united with acustica : the journal of the European Acoustics Association (EEIG)Article
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Abstract
The active cochlear mechanism amplifies responses to low-intensity sounds, compresses the range of input sound intensities to a smaller output range, and increases cochlear frequency selectivity. The gain of the active mechanism can be modulated by the medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferent system, creating the possibility of top-down control at the earliest level of auditory processing. In humans, MOC function has mostly been measured by the suppression of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), typically as a result of MOC activation by a contralateral elicitor sound. The exact relationship between OAE suppression and cochlear gain reduction, however, remains unclear. Here, we measured the effect of a contralateral MOC elicitor on perceptual estimates of cochlear gain and compression, obtained using the established temporal masking curve (TMC) method. The measurements were taken at a signal frequency of 2 kHz and compared with measurements of click-evoked OAE suppression. The elicitor was a broadband noise, set to a sound pressure level of 54 dB to avoid triggering the middle ear muscle reflex. Despite its low level, the elicitor had a significant effect on the TMCs, consistent with a reduction in cochlear gain. The amount of gain reduction was estimated as 4.4 dB on average, corresponding to around 18 % of the without-elicitor gain. As a result, the compression exponent increased from 0.18 to 0.27.
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