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MEDS 371 Peripheral Auditory System Dr. Duck O. Kim dB: decibel SPL: sound pressure level dB SPL = 20 log10 (pressure/ref) ref = 20 mPa frequency (Hz) audible freq. range for humans: approx. 20 ~ 20,000 Hz Davis & Silverman, 1970 dB SPL re 20 mPa threshold of hearing Purves Fig 13.4 Purves Fig 13.3 the middle ear Impedance transformation middle-ear muscles: tensor tympani - malleus stapedius - stapes Pickles, Pickles,1988 1988 Bekesy, 1960 external ear middle ear inner ear bas. mem. disp. amplitude data from human cadavers origin of tonotopic organization Bekesy, 1960 distance from stapes (mm) cochlea SV ST temporal bone Pickles, 1988 inner ear Purves fluid in ST & SV: perilymph (like CSF) fluid in SM: endolymph (high K+) cochlear partition SV RM SM TM ST BM Smith, 1975 inner hair cell outer hair cell afferent afferent * * Smith, 1975 tip-link model of hair-cell excitation Pickles, 1984 Purves, Fig 12-8; adapted from Lewis & Hudspeth, 1983 Purves Fig 13-6 threshold (dB SPL) frequency tuning curves cochlear neuron basilar membrane Sellick et al, 1982 Neely & Kim, 1983 frequency (kHz) frequency tuning curves of cochlear neurons threshold (dB SPL) OHC damage normal Robertson & Johnstone, 1979 frequency (kHz) mammalian cochlear OHC HB motility somatic motility OHC motilities underlie the cochlear amplifier. Kim, 1986 Innervation of IHCs and OHCs by cochlear neurons adapted from Spoendlin, 1972 Phase-locked discharges of a cochlear nerve fiber Stimulus: 300 Hz pure tone Evans, 1975 two codes of frequency in auditory nerve fibers val discharge rate (spikes/s) coding of sound intensity increase of sound intensity -> (1) increase of discharge rates of cochlear nerve fibers (with low spontaneous rates); (2) increase of number of excited cochlear nerve fibers Kim et al., 1991 distance along cochlea hearing loss examples_____ conductive hearing loss otosclerosis otitis media impaction of ear canal sensorineural hearing loss acoustic trauma ototoxic drugs Meniere’s disease mixed hearing loss presbycusis Purves Box 13-C