Properties of derived cochlear action potentials in forward tonal masking in guinea pigs |
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Authors: | Ya. A. Al'tman N. I. Nikitin |
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Affiliation: | (1) I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 6 Makarov Bank, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Abstract: | Chronic experiments on guinea pigs were used to study the characteristics of cochlear nerve action potentials and the derived potential in conditions of forward masking. The auditory nerve action potential was recorded from the round window of the cochlea. The derived potential was obtained by subtracting the action potential recorded with masking from the response obtained in silence. These studies showed that the derived potential showed higher sensitivity to masking than the traditional measure of masking, i.e., the decrement in the amplitude of the auditory nerve action potential. The derived potential reflects not only changes in the action potential during masking, but also changes in its shape. Differences between the derived potential and the action potential decrement provide evidence that the amplitude and time changes in the derived potential provide more complete information on the nature of activity in the auditory fibers. Translated from Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 751–766, June, 1999. |
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Keywords: | Inner ear cochlea round window auditory nerve action potential derived potential forward tonal masking |
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