title: Auditory nerve excitation via a non-traveling wave mode of basilar membrane motion.
abstract: Basilar membrane (BM) motion and auditory nerve fiber (ANF) tuning are generally very similar, but the ANF had appeared to be unresponsive to a plateau mode of BM motion that occurs at frequencies above an ANF's characteristic frequency (CF). We recorded ANF responses from the gerbil, concentrating on this supra-CF region. We observed a supra-CF plateau in ANF responses at high stimulus level, indicating that the plateau mode of BM motion can be excitatory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. sh2365@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Stanley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Elizabeth S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Olson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001489:Basilar Membrane / Q000502:physiology*; D003056:Cochlear Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005849:Gerbillinae; D009038:Motion