Pub Date : 2017-03-31DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0604-6
Sarah Neveux, Nicole K. Smith, Anna Roche, B. Blough, W. Pathmasiri, A. Coffin
{"title":"Natural Compounds as Occult Ototoxins? Ginkgo biloba Flavonoids Moderately Damage Lateral Line Hair Cells","authors":"Sarah Neveux, Nicole K. Smith, Anna Roche, B. Blough, W. Pathmasiri, A. Coffin","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0604-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0604-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77345439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-03-23DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0607-3
Takushi Miyoshi, Taro Yamaguchi, K. Ogita, Yasuko Tanaka, K. Ishibashi, Hiroaki Ito, Taisuke Kobayashi, T. Nakagawa, J. Ito, K. Omori, Norio Yamamoto
{"title":"Quantitative Analysis of Aquaporin Expression Levels during the Development and Maturation of the Inner Ear","authors":"Takushi Miyoshi, Taro Yamaguchi, K. Ogita, Yasuko Tanaka, K. Ishibashi, Hiroaki Ito, Taisuke Kobayashi, T. Nakagawa, J. Ito, K. Omori, Norio Yamamoto","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0607-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0607-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83423479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-03-20DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0600-x
A. T. Christensen, Rodrigo Ordoñez, D. Hammershøi
{"title":"Distortion-Product Otoacoustic Emission Measured Below 300 Hz in Normal-Hearing Human Subjects","authors":"A. T. Christensen, Rodrigo Ordoñez, D. Hammershøi","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0600-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0600-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73839220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-21DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0613-5
Y. Adel, G. Hilkhuysen, A. Norena, Y. Cazals, S. Roman, O. Macherey
{"title":"Forward Masking in Cochlear Implant Users: Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Data Using Pulse Train Maskers","authors":"Y. Adel, G. Hilkhuysen, A. Norena, Y. Cazals, S. Roman, O. Macherey","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0613-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0613-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89021103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-01Epub Date: 2016-10-20DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0594-4
Kenneth S Henry, Kristina S Abrams, Johanna Forst, Matthew J Mender, Erikson G Neilans, Fabio Idrobo, Laurel H Carney
Vowels make a strong contribution to speech perception under natural conditions. Vowels are encoded in the auditory nerve primarily through neural synchrony to temporal fine structure and to envelope fluctuations rather than through average discharge rate. Neural synchrony is thought to contribute less to vowel coding in central auditory nuclei, consistent with more limited synchronization to fine structure and the emergence of average-rate coding of envelope fluctuations. However, this hypothesis is largely unexplored, especially in background noise. The present study examined coding mechanisms at the level of the midbrain that support behavioral sensitivity to simple vowel-like sounds using neurophysiological recordings and matched behavioral experiments in the budgerigar. Stimuli were harmonic tone complexes with energy concentrated at one spectral peak, or formant frequency, presented in quiet and in noise. Behavioral thresholds for formant-frequency discrimination decreased with increasing amplitude of stimulus envelope fluctuations, increased in noise, and were similar between budgerigars and humans. Multiunit recordings in awake birds showed that the midbrain encodes vowel-like sounds both through response synchrony to envelope structure and through average rate. Whereas neural discrimination thresholds based on either coding scheme were sufficient to support behavioral thresholds in quiet, only synchrony-based neural thresholds could account for behavioral thresholds in background noise. These results reveal an incomplete transformation to average-rate coding of vowel-like sounds in the midbrain. Model simulations suggest that this transformation emerges due to modulation tuning, which is shared between birds and mammals. Furthermore, the results underscore the behavioral relevance of envelope synchrony in the midbrain for detection of small differences in vowel formant frequency under real-world listening conditions.
{"title":"Midbrain Synchrony to Envelope Structure Supports Behavioral Sensitivity to Single-Formant Vowel-Like Sounds in Noise.","authors":"Kenneth S Henry, Kristina S Abrams, Johanna Forst, Matthew J Mender, Erikson G Neilans, Fabio Idrobo, Laurel H Carney","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0594-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10162-016-0594-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vowels make a strong contribution to speech perception under natural conditions. Vowels are encoded in the auditory nerve primarily through neural synchrony to temporal fine structure and to envelope fluctuations rather than through average discharge rate. Neural synchrony is thought to contribute less to vowel coding in central auditory nuclei, consistent with more limited synchronization to fine structure and the emergence of average-rate coding of envelope fluctuations. However, this hypothesis is largely unexplored, especially in background noise. The present study examined coding mechanisms at the level of the midbrain that support behavioral sensitivity to simple vowel-like sounds using neurophysiological recordings and matched behavioral experiments in the budgerigar. Stimuli were harmonic tone complexes with energy concentrated at one spectral peak, or formant frequency, presented in quiet and in noise. Behavioral thresholds for formant-frequency discrimination decreased with increasing amplitude of stimulus envelope fluctuations, increased in noise, and were similar between budgerigars and humans. Multiunit recordings in awake birds showed that the midbrain encodes vowel-like sounds both through response synchrony to envelope structure and through average rate. Whereas neural discrimination thresholds based on either coding scheme were sufficient to support behavioral thresholds in quiet, only synchrony-based neural thresholds could account for behavioral thresholds in background noise. These results reveal an incomplete transformation to average-rate coding of vowel-like sounds in the midbrain. Model simulations suggest that this transformation emerges due to modulation tuning, which is shared between birds and mammals. Furthermore, the results underscore the behavioral relevance of envelope synchrony in the midbrain for detection of small differences in vowel formant frequency under real-world listening conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5243265/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77559439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0595-3
Lisa L. Hunter, D. H. Keefe, M. Feeney, Denis F. Fitzpatrick
{"title":"Pressurized Wideband Acoustic Stapedial Reflex Thresholds: Normal Development and Relationships to Auditory Function in Infants","authors":"Lisa L. Hunter, D. H. Keefe, M. Feeney, Denis F. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0595-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0595-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85903266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0592-6
M. Naghibolhosseini, G. Long
{"title":"Estimation of Round-Trip Outer-Middle Ear Gain Using DPOAEs","authors":"M. Naghibolhosseini, G. Long","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0592-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0592-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90237892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0597-1
A. Jones, B. May
{"title":"Improving the Reliability of Tinnitus Screening in Laboratory Animals","authors":"A. Jones, B. May","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0597-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0597-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76399985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0593-5
Maria A. Berezina-Greene, J. Guinan
{"title":"Electrically Evoked Medial Olivocochlear Efferent Effects on Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions in Guinea Pigs","authors":"Maria A. Berezina-Greene, J. Guinan","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0593-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0593-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78800453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s10162-016-0588-2
James B. Dewey, S. Dhar
{"title":"Profiles of Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions from 0.5 to 20 kHz in Humans","authors":"James B. Dewey, S. Dhar","doi":"10.1007/s10162-016-0588-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-016-0588-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73483527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}