Modeling the characteristics of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in lizards

On the heritability of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions: A twins study.

Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) were measured in human monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins and in a sample of non-twins. The number of SOAEs exhibited was more highly correlated in MZ co-twins than in same-sex DZ co-twins. Model-fitting to the correlations suggested that about three-quarters of the individual variation in the expression of SOAEs is attributable to genes. There w...

[Changes in human spontaneous otoacoustic emissions with contralateral acoustic stimulation].

According to current cochlear concepts, spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) are thought to be the product of outer hair cell (OHCs) movement. Furthermore, efferent neurofibers from the olivocochlear bundle primarily innervate OHCs. Thus, we designed this investigation to determine changes in SOAE under conditions of contralateral acoustic stimulation. Fouty-two normal ears of 34 subjects ...

Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in heterosexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals.

Click-evoked otoacoustic emissions (CEOAEs) were previously shown to be significantly less strong in homosexual and bisexual females than in heterosexual females. Here it is reported that the spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) of those same 60 homosexual and bisexual females were less numerous and weaker than those in 57 heterosexual females. That is, the SOAEs of the homosexual and bise...

Title : Dynamics of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions : Theory and experiment

Coherent reflection without traveling waves: on the origin of long-latency otoacoustic emissions in lizards.

Lizard ears produce otoacoustic emissions with characteristics often strikingly reminiscent of those measured in mammals. The similarity of their emissions is surprising, given that lizards and mammals manifest major differences in aspects of inner ear morphology and function believed to be relevant to emission generation. For example, lizards such as the gecko evidently lack traveling waves al...