Structure of tractus olivocochlearis

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of contralateral acoustic stimuli on speech identification scores and to correlate this effect… (More)

Cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) express alpha9 nACh receptors and are contacted by descending, predominately cholinergic… (More)

This report documents slow changes in cochlear responses produced by electrical stimulation of the olivocochlear bundle (OCB… (More)

1. Outer hair cells (OHCs) have active micromechanical properties that are thought to be the origin of evoked otoacoustic… (More)

We use simple statistical models of the firing patterns of high, medium, and low spontaneous rate auditory-nerve fibers to study… (More)

 

A surgical approach to the cat's VIIIth nerve has been developed which allows recordings to be made from efferent fibers of the… (More)

In recent years studies on isolated hair cells have suggested that there is an inherent tuning of hair cells determined by their… (More)

Recent studies of the origins and terminations of the olivocochlear bundle (OCB) in the cat provide evidence that separate… (More)

We confirm the report of Mountain (Mountain, D.C. (1980): Science 210, 77-72) that stimulating the crossed olivocochlear bundle… (More)