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ArticleJournal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO2019

Exploring the Role of Medial Olivocochlear Efferents on the Detection of Amplitude Modulation for Tones Presented in Noise.

Magdalena Wojtczak, Alix M Klang, Nathan T Torunsky

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Article in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 2019. 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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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Inherent envelope fluctuations in forward masking: Effects of age and hearing loss.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023
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  4. Adaptation in auditory processing.Physiological reviews · 2023
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  7. Listening in complex acoustic scenes.Current opinion in physiology · 2020
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  9. Adaptation to Noise in Human Speech Recognition Depends on Noise-Level Statistics and Fast Dynamic-Range Compression.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Magdalena WojtczakDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. wojtc001@umn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1088-4669
Alix M KlangDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
Nathan T TorunskyDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.

Funding

Perceptual and functional role of medial olivocochlear efferents in humansR01DC015462 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI WOJTCZAK, MAGDALENA · 2017 to 2021
$1.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015462
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The medial olivocochlear reflex has been hypothesized to improve the detection and discrimination of dynamic signals in noisy backgrounds. This hypothesis was tested here by comparing behavioral outcomes with otoacoustic emissions. The effects of a precursor on amplitude-modulation (AM) detection were measured for a 1- and 6-kHz carrier at levels of 40, 60, and 80 dB SPL in a two-octave-wide noise masker with a level designed to produce poor, but above-chance, performance. Three types of precursor were used: a two-octave noise band, an inharmonic complex tone, and a pure tone. Precursors had the same overall level as the simultaneous noise masker that immediately followed the precursor. The noise precursor produced a large improvement in AM detection for both carrier frequencies and at all three levels. The complex tone produced a similarly large improvement in AM detection at the highest level but had a smaller effect for the two lower carrier levels. The tonal precursor did not significantly affect AM detection in noise. Comparisons of behavioral thresholds and medial olivocochlear efferent effects on stimulus frequency otoacoustic emissions measured with similar stimuli did not support the hypothesis that efferent-based reduction of cochlear responses contributes to the precursor effects on AM detection.

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Otoacoustic Emissions, SpontaneousAdolescentAdultCochlear NerveEfferent PathwaysFemaleHealthy VolunteersHumansMaleNoiseSpeech AcousticsSuperior Olivary ComplexYoung Adultamplitude-modulation detectionmedial olivocochlear efferentsneural adaptation

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PMID31140010
PMCPMC6646499

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