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Front Neurosci. 2017 Jul 27;11:429. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00429. eCollection 2017.

Human Summating Potential Using Continuous Loop Averaging Deconvolution: Response Amplitudes Vary with Tone Burst Repetition Rate and Duration.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Alana E Kennedy, Wafaa A Kaf, John A Ferraro, Rafael E Delgado, Jeffery T Lichtenhan

Affiliations

  1. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Missouri State UniversitySpringfield, MO, United States.
  2. Department of Hearing and Speech, University of Kansas Medical CenterKansas City, KS, United States.
  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL, United States.
  4. Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of MedicineSt. Louis, MO, United States.

PMID: 28798660 PMCID: PMC5529347 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00429

Abstract

Electrocochleography (ECochG) to high repetition rate tone bursts may have advantages over ECochG to clicks with standard slow rates. Tone burst stimuli presented at a high repetition rate may enhance summating potential (SP) measurements by reducing neural contributions resulting from neural adaptation to high stimulus repetition rates. To allow for the analysis of the complex ECochG responses to high rates, we deconvolved responses using the Continuous Loop Averaging Deconvolution (CLAD) technique. We examined the effect of high stimulus repetition rate and stimulus duration on SP amplitude measurements made with extratympanic ECochG to tone bursts in 20 adult females with normal hearing. We used 500 and 2,000 Hz tone bursts of various stimulus durations (12, 6, 3 ms) and repetition rates (five rates ranging from 7.1 to 234.38/s). A within-subject repeated measures (rate x duration) analysis of variance was conducted. We found that, for both 500 and 2,000 Hz stimuli, the mean deconvolved SP amplitudes were larger at faster repetition rates (58.59 and 97.66/s) compared to slower repetition rates (7.1 and 19.53/s), and larger at shorter stimulus duration compared longer stimulus duration. Our concluding hypothesis is that large SP amplitude to short duration stimuli may originate primarily from neural excitation, and large SP amplitudes to long duration, fast repetition rate stimuli may originate from hair cell responses. While the hair cell or neural origins of the SP to various stimulus parameters remains to be validated, our results nevertheless provide normative data as a step toward applying the CLAD technique to understanding diseased ears.

Keywords: auditory nerve; cochlea; continuous loop averaging deconvolution; high stimulus rate; phase locking; tone burst

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