ACOUSTIC TRAUMA - SINGLE NEURON BASIS FOR THE HALF-OCTAVE SHIFT
ACOUSTIC TRAUMA - SINGLE NEURON BASIS FOR THE HALF-OCTAVE SHIFT
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DOI:
10.1121/1.386906
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
JOHNSTONE, BM
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作者:
CODY, AR;JOHNSTONE, BM
Exposure to an intense pure tone can induce a loss of [guinea pig] hearing sensitivity. If this loss recovers, the desensitization is regarded as a temporary threshold shift (TTS). At the single auditory neuron level this TTS was monitored as a loss of sensitivity at the neuron''s most sensitive or characteristic frequency (CF). When pure-tone exposures were presented at frequency intervals measured from the neuron CF, a frequency half an octave below the CF was the most effective for inducing a CF TTS. All exposure frequencies higher than half an octave below the CF produce a marked reduction in TTS growth with intensity, when compared to lower exposure frequencies. With increasing exposure frequency higher than the 1/2-octave point, the intensity needed to produce a given TTS grew faster than the neuron sensitivity. Below the 1/2-octave point all exposure frequencies behave similarly. Strong similarities exist between the frequency-specific requirements for TTS and the mechanical and neural nonlinearities found in other studies. Apparently the 1/2-octave shift may be a direct result of basilar membrane nonlinearities.