Relationships Between Otoacoustic and Psychophysical Measures of Cochlear Function

Both otoacoustic emission (OAE) and psychoacoustic measures provide insights into active cochlear processes in the human auditory system. This chapter provides an overview of the similarities in these two measures, one a physiological response generated within the cochlea (OAEs) and the other a behavioral measure reflecting processing in the periphery, but also at all other levels of the auditory system, including the auditory cortex. The major phenomena that will be reviewed here are measures of OAE and behavioral-threshold microstructure, estimates of cochlear-response growth, and estimates of frequency specificity in the cochlea, including frequency tuning and the upward spread of suppression/masking.

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