Binaural interaction of auditory brainstem response(ABR) to click stimuli.

Medial Geniculate Units to Binaural Click Stimuli

Binaural Interaction Component in Speech Evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses.

OBJECTIVE This article aims to describe the characteristics of the binaural interaction component (BIC) of speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (ABR). MATERIALS AND METHODS All 15 subjects had normal peripheral hearing sensitivity. ABRs were elicited by speech stimulus /da/. RESULTS The first BIC (BIC-SP1) in the speech-evoked ABR occurred at around 6 ms in the region of peak V. The se...

The I' potential of the human auditory brainstem response to paired click stimuli.

When stimulated with an appropriate stimulus, the hair cells of the organ of Corti depolarize, causing the release of a neurotransmitter substance, which excites afferent VIIIth nerve dendrites. It is reasonable to hypothesize that excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) generated by the dendrites of the auditory nerve in turn initiate a compound action potential (CAP). The EPSP is thought t...

Effects of in-situ calibration of click stimuli on the auditory brainstem response.

We studied the effects on the auditory brainstem response (ABR) of applying a computerized calibration procedure for click stimuli that corrects for individual transducer characteristics and ear canal acoustics. The "calibrated" signal at the eardrum possesses a nearly flat spectrum from 500 to 10,000 Hz. ABRs were recorded from normal-hearing subjects using both calibrated and uncalibrated cli...

Frequency-specific auditory brainstem responses to bone-conducted stimuli.

The feasibility of recording bone-conducted auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) to 500-Hz and 2000-Hz tone bursts and clicks was investigated in normal-hearing adults. For all 3 stimuli, responses were detectable in all subjects at 30 dB nHL. At 20 dB nHL, the tone burst responses were detectable in 80-87% of the subjects, demonstrating that even the responses to 500-Hz tone bursts were relativ...