Mechanisms of cochlea excitation and amplification were investigated experimentally across a range of mammalian species. Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) are used to clinically assess hearing. DPOAEs recorded from the ears of human subjects in the presence of a low frequency, high level tone were compared with similar recordings made from guinea pigs. Both guinea pig and human data were found to originate from a common cochlear nonlinearity; the Boltzmann model of DPOAE generation at the output of a spatially localised single-saturating non-linearity. Accordingly, the guinea pig cochlea can be used as a human model system for the study of DPOAE generation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:619017 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Weddell, Thomas David |
| Publisher | University of Brighton |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/0f9db6ef-c538-4db9-a714-ea04154959fa |
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