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Smith SB, Ichiba K, Velenovsky DS, Cone B. Efferent modulation of pre-neural and neural distortion products. Hear Res 2017; 356:25-34. [PMID: 29122423 PMCID: PMC5705265 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Revised: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) and distortion product frequency following responses (DPFFRs) are respectively pre-neural and neural measurements associated with cochlear nonlinearity. Because cochlear nonlinearity is putatively linked to outer hair cell electromotility, DPOAEs and DPFFRs may provide complementary measurements of the human medial olivocochlear (MOC) reflex, which directly modulates outer hair cell function. In this study, we first quantified MOC reflex-induced DPOAE inhibition at spectral fine structure peaks in 22 young human adults with normal hearing. The f1 and f2 tone pairs producing the largest DPOAE fine structure peak for each subject were then used to evoke DPFFRs with and without MOC reflex activation to provide a related neural measure of efferent inhibition. We observed significant positive relationships between DPOAE fine structure peak inhibition and inhibition of DPFFR components representing neural phase locking to f2 and 2f1-f2, but not f1. These findings may support previous observations that the MOC reflex inhibits DPOAE sources differentially. That these effects are maintained and represented in the auditory brainstem suggests that the MOC reflex may exert a potent influence on subsequent subcortical neural representation of sound.
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- S B Smith
- University of Arizona, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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- University of Arizona, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- University of Arizona, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- University of Arizona, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Lerud KD, Almonte FV, Kim JC, Large EW. Mode-locking neurodynamics predict human auditory brainstem responses to musical intervals. Hear Res 2013; 308:41-9. [PMID: 24091182 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2013] [Revised: 09/13/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The auditory nervous system is highly nonlinear. Some nonlinear responses arise through active processes in the cochlea, while others may arise in neural populations of the cochlear nucleus, inferior colliculus and higher auditory areas. In humans, auditory brainstem recordings reveal nonlinear population responses to combinations of pure tones, and to musical intervals composed of complex tones. Yet the biophysical origin of central auditory nonlinearities, their signal processing properties, and their relationship to auditory perception remain largely unknown. Both stimulus components and nonlinear resonances are well represented in auditory brainstem nuclei due to neural phase-locking. Recently mode-locking, a generalization of phase-locking that implies an intrinsically nonlinear processing of sound, has been observed in mammalian auditory brainstem nuclei. Here we show that a canonical model of mode-locked neural oscillation predicts the complex nonlinear population responses to musical intervals that have been observed in the human brainstem. The model makes predictions about auditory signal processing and perception that are different from traditional delay-based models, and may provide insight into the nature of auditory population responses. We anticipate that the application of dynamical systems analysis will provide the starting point for generic models of auditory population dynamics, and lead to a deeper understanding of nonlinear auditory signal processing possibly arising in excitatory-inhibitory networks of the central auditory nervous system. This approach has the potential to link neural dynamics with the perception of pitch, music, and speech, and lead to dynamical models of auditory system development.
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- Karl D Lerud
- University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA.
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Gockel HE, Farooq R, Muhammed L, Plack CJ, Carlyon RP. Differences between psychoacoustic and frequency following response measures of distortion tone level and masking. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2012; 132:2524-2535. [PMID: 23039446 PMCID: PMC5777604 DOI: 10.1121/1.4751541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The scalp-recorded frequency following response (FFR) in humans was measured for a 244-Hz pure tone at a range of input levels and for complex tones containing harmonics 2-4 of a 300-Hz fundamental, but shifted by ±56 Hz. The effective magnitude of the cubic difference tone (CDT) and the quadratic difference tone (QDT, at F(2)-F(1)) in the FFR for the complex was estimated by comparing the magnitude spectrum of the FFR at the distortion product (DP) frequency with that for the pure tone. The effective DP levels in the FFR were higher than those commonly estimated in psychophysical experiments, indicating contributions to the DP in the FFR in addition to the audible propagated component. A low-frequency narrowband noise masker reduced the magnitude of FFR responses to the CDT but also to primary components over a wide range of frequencies. The results indicate that audible DPs may contribute very little to the DPs observed in the FFR and that using a narrowband noise for the purpose of masking audible DPs can have undesired effects on the FFR over a wide frequency range. The results are consistent with the notion that broadly tuned mechanisms central to the auditory nerve strongly influence the FFR.
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- Hedwig E Gockel
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, United Kingdom.
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Smalt CJ, Krishnan A, Bidelman GM, Ananthakrishnan S, Gandour JT. Distortion products and their influence on representation of pitch-relevant information in the human brainstem for unresolved harmonic complex tones. Hear Res 2012; 292:26-34. [PMID: 22910032 PMCID: PMC3483078 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2012] [Revised: 07/31/2012] [Accepted: 08/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pitch experiments aimed at evaluating temporal pitch mechanism(s) often utilize complex sounds with only unresolved harmonic components, and a low-pass noise masker to eliminate the potential contribution of audible distortion products to the pitch percept. Herein we examine how: (i) masker induced reduction of neural distortion products (difference tone: DT; and cubic difference tone: CDT) alters the representation of pitch relevant information in the brainstem; and (ii) the pitch salience is altered when distortion products are reduced and/or eliminated. Scalp recorded brainstem frequency following responses (FFR) were recorded in normal hearing individuals using a complex tone with only unresolved harmonics presented in quiet, and in the presence of a low-pass masker at SNRs of +15, +5, and -5 dB. Difference limen for F0 discrimination (F0 DL) was obtained in quiet and in the presence of low-pass noise. Magnitude of DT components (with the exception of components at F0 and 2F0), and the CDT components decreased with increasing masker level. Neural pitch strength decreased with increasing masker level for both the envelope-related (FFR(ENV)) and spectral-related (FFR(SPEC)) phase-locked activity. Finally, F0 DLs increased with decreasing SNRs suggesting poorer F0 discrimination with reduction of the distortion products. Collectively, these findings support the notion that both DT and CDT, as reflected in the FFR(ENV) and FFR(SPEC), respectively, influence both the brainstem representation of pitch relevant information and the pitch salience of the complex sounds.
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- Christopher J. Smalt
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, ON, M6A 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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Bhagat SP, Champlin CA. Evaluation of distortion products produced by the human auditory system. Hear Res 2005; 193:51-67. [PMID: 15219320 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2004.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2003] [Accepted: 04/05/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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During the simultaneous monaural presentation of two primary tones, distortion products can be measured acoustically in the ear canal (DPOAEs) and electrically as auditory evoked potentials (DPAEPs). The purpose of this investigation was to elucidate the sources of nonlinearity within the human auditory system responsible for generating quadratic (QDT) and cubic (CDT) difference tones. Measurements of DPOAEs and DPAEPs were obtained from 24 normal-hearing adults (12 male) in conditions with and without presentation of a 60 dB SPL contralateral noise. The effects of primary-tone signal duration and mode of presentation on measurements of DPAEPs were also examined. Results indicated that overall, both acoustic and electric distortion products were suppressed during presentation of a contralateral noise. Increases in the duration of the primary tones caused increases in DPAEP amplitudes. A greater proportion of individuals exhibited DPAEPs with monotic compared to dichotic presentation of the primary tones. The findings of the investigation supported the conjecture that a cochlear nonlinearity produced CDT acoustic and electric distortion products. Evidence concerning the origin of the QDT DPAEP was inconclusive, and contributions from both cochlear and neural nonlinear sources could not be ruled out.
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- Shaum P Bhagat
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Louisiana State University, 163 Music and Dramatic Arts Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
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Steady-state evoked potentials can be recorded from the human scalp in response to auditory stimuli presented at rates between 1 and 200 Hz or by periodic modulations of the amplitude and/or frequency of a continuous tone. Responses can be objectively detected using frequency-based analyses. In waking subjects, the responses are particularly prominent at rates near 40 Hz. Responses evoked by more rapidly presented stimuli are less affected by changes in arousal and can be evoked by multiple simultaneous stimuli without significant loss of amplitude. Response amplitude increases as the depth of modulation or the intensity increases. The phase delay of the response increases as the intensity or the carrier frequency decreases. Auditory steady-state responses are generated throughout the auditory nervous system, with cortical regions contributing more than brainstem generators to responses at lower modulation frequencies. These responses are useful for objectively evaluating auditory thresholds, assessing suprathreshold hearing, and monitoring the state of arousal during anesthesia.
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- Terence W Picton
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, University of Toronto, Canada.
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Purcell DW, John MS, Picton TW. Concurrent measurement of distortion product otoacoustic emissions and auditory steady state evoked potentials. Hear Res 2003; 176:128-41. [PMID: 12583888 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-5955(02)00770-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) and auditory steady state evoked response potentials (ASSRs) can both be evoked by tone pairs with frequencies f(1) and f(2). The DPOAE is maximal at 2f(1)-f(2) and the ASSR is maximal at f(2)-f(1). Since DPOAE magnitude depends on the ratio f(2)/f(1), but ASSR amplitude depends on the beat frequency f(2)-f(1), compromises are necessary when recording both responses concurrently. Tone pairs with f(2) of 900, 1800 and 3600 Hz were presented simultaneously at either 40 or 50 dB sound pressure level (SPL). The f(1) frequency of each pair was approximately 85 or 180 Hz lower than f(2). Phase measurements were used to calculate apparent latencies at 40 dB SPL. For increasing f(2), DPOAE latencies were 14.5, 9.7 and 6.3 ms for 85 Hz beats, and 11.5, 9.0 and 4.3 ms for 180 Hz beats. ASSR latencies were 22.0, 15.7 and 17.8 ms at 85 Hz, and 17.7, 11.3 and 9.6 ms at 180 Hz. From a model of the mechanical transmission in the cochlea, delays between the basilar membrane and the generator of the ASSR were estimated as 15.4, 12.2 and 15.3 ms at 85 Hz and 8.6, 7.6 and 8.0 ms at 180 Hz.
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- David W Purcell
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, University of Toronto, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M6A 2E1.
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Arnold S, Burkard R. Inner hair cell loss and steady-state potentials from the inferior colliculus and auditory cortex of the chinchilla. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2002; 112:590-599. [PMID: 12186040 DOI: 10.1121/1.1494991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Steady-state evoked potentials were measured from unanesthetized chinchillas both before and after carboplatin-induced selective inner hair cell loss. Recordings were made from both the inferior colliculus (IC) and the auditory cortex (AC). The steady-state potential was measured in the form of the envelope following response (EFR), obtained by presenting a two-tone stimulus (f1 = 2000 Hz; f2 = 2020, 2040, 2080, 2160, or 2320 Hz), and measuring the magnitude of the Fourier coefficient at the f2-f1 difference frequency. From the IC, precarboplatin, EFR amplitude vs difference tone frequency showed a bandpass pattern, with maximum amplitude at either 160 or 80 Hz, depending upon stimulus level. Postcarboplatin, the preferred difference frequency was 80 Hz for all stimulus levels. From the AC, EFR amplitude versus difference tone frequency also showed a bandpass pattern, with the maximum amplitude at 80 Hz both pre- and postcarboplatin. EFR amplitude from the IC was decreased for some conditions postcarboplatin, while the amplitude from the AC showed no significant change.
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- Sally Arnold
- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Buffalo State College, New York 14222-1095, USA.
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Arnold S, Burkard R. Studies of interaural attenuation to investigate the validity of a dichotic difference tone response recorded from the inferior colliculus in the chinchilla. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2000; 107:1541-7. [PMID: 10738808 DOI: 10.1121/1.428439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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In a previous paper (Arnold and Burkard, 1998) a dichotic f2-f1 difference tone (DT) auditory evoked potential from the chinchilla inferior colliculus (IC) was measured while presenting f1 (2000 Hz) to one ear and f2 (2100 Hz) to the other ear. This measurement paradigm could be used as a means to study binaural processing in an unanesthetized animal model. However, it is possible that this response is actually generated peripherally, as a result of acoustic crossover. The purpose of the present set of experiments was to investigate whether the dichotic DT is a true binaural phenomenon. Recordings were made from chronically implanted IC electrodes in unanesthetized, monaural chinchillas (left cochlea destroyed). In experiment 1, interaural attenuation (IA) was measured in two ways. First, IA was measured by comparing IC evoked potential thresholds obtained when stimulating the normal right ear and the dead left ear, using tone bursts (0.5-8 kHz). Mean values of interaural attenuation ranged from 50-65 dB across frequency (55 dB at 2000 Hz). Next, the DT was measured monaurally using f1 = 2000 and f2 = 2100 (L1 = L2). By comparing the mean DT input/output functions for monaural stimulation of the right and left ears, a mean value of IA for the tonal pair was estimated (approximately 69 dB). In experiment 2, the DT was measured with right monaural stimulation, while varying the relative levels of the primaries. A small DT could be seen with primary levels up to 30 dB apart, but not for greater level differences. Differences substantially greater than 30 dB would be expected in the crossover situation based upon IA. In experiment 3, the stimuli were presented dichotically (f1 to right ear, f2 to left ear and vice versa, L1 = L2) to determine whether acoustic crosstalk to the normal right ear would generate a DT. No DT was reliably observed in this condition. Taken together, these results suggest that the dichotic DT is a true binaural phenomenon, and not simply attributable to acoustic crossover.
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- S Arnold
- Department of Speech Language Pathology, Buffalo State College, New York 14222-1095, USA
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