Active Processes and Otoacoustic Emissions in Hearing

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Otoacoustic Emissions: Concepts and Origins....Pages 1-38
Traveling Waves, Second Filters, and Physiological Vulnerability: A Short History of the Discovery of Active Processes in Hearing....Pages 39-62
Critical Oscillators as Active Elements in Hearing....Pages 63-92
Active Hair-Bundle Motility of the Hair Cells of Vestibular and Auditory Organs....Pages 93-143
The Morphological Specializations and Electromotility of the Mammalian Outer Hair Cell....Pages 145-189
Active Processes in Insect Hearing....Pages 191-209
Otoacoustic Emissions in Amphibians, Lepidosaurs, and Archosaurs....Pages 211-260
Otoacoustic Emissions: Basic Studies in Mammalian Models....Pages 261-303
Mechanisms of Mammalian Otoacoustic Emission....Pages 305-342
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in the Efferent Control of Cochlear Nonlinearities....Pages 343-379
Cochlear Models Incorporating Active Processes....Pages 381-394
Relationships Between Otoacoustic and Psychophysical Measures of Cochlear Function....Pages 395-420
Otoacoustic Emissions as a Diagnostic Tool in a Clinical Context....Pages 421-460
Future Directions in the Study of Active Processes and Otoacoustic Emissions....Pages 461-471
Back Matter....Pages 473-484