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ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2016

Frequency shifts in distortion-product otoacoustic emissions evoked by swept tones.

Christopher A Shera, Carolina Abdala

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Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Swept Along: Measuring Otoacoustic Emissions Using Continuously Varying Stimuli.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024
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  3. Article
  4. A cochlea with three parts? Evidence from otoacoustic emission phase in humans.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher A SheraEaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Carolina AbdalaCaruso Department of Otolaryngology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

UNDERSTANDING OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONSR01DC003687 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Christopher A Shera · 1999 to 2026
$9.8M
Postnatal Cochlear Maturation and Sources of ImmaturityR01DC003552 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ABDALA, CAROLINA · 2003 to 2019
$5.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC003552NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC003687
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) are evoked using stimuli whose instantaneous frequencies change rapidly and continuously with time (swept tones), the oscillatory interference pattern known as distortion-product fine structure shifts slightly along the frequency axis in the same direction as the sweep. By analogy with the temporal mechanisms thought to underlie the differing efficacies of up- and down-swept stimuli as perceptual maskers (e.g., Schroeder-phase complexes), fine-structure shifts have been ascribed to the phase distortion associated with dispersive wave propagation in the cochlea. This paper tests an alternative hypothesis and finds that the observed shifts arise predominantly as a methodological side effect of the analysis procedures commonly used to extract delayed emissions from the measured time waveform. Approximate expressions for the frequency shifts of DPOAE distortion and reflection components are derived, validated with computer simulations, and applied to account for DPOAE fine-structure shifts measured in human subjects. Component magnitudes are shown to shift twice as much as component phases. Procedures for compensating swept-tone measurements to obtain estimates of the total DPOAE and its components measured at other sweep rates or in the sinusoidal steady state are presented.

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Computer SimulationAcoustic StimulationCochleaHumansOtoacoustic Emissions, SpontaneousThinkingTime

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PMID27586726
PMCPMC5392090
OpenAlexW2508220301

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