Abstract
Evidence has recently been obtained (Burns et al., 1984) for several interactions among spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) including intermodulation distortion products, mutual suppression, and noncontiguous-linked SOAEs which apparently share energy between two quasi-stable states. In this paper, we give an updated record of our findings on intermodulation distortion products and linked emissions, and give evidence that the former tend to occur when a distortion product frequency is close to that of a cochlear resonance. Computer simulations of the interactions among van der Pol oscillators, which represent nonlinear active elements in a simplified cochlear model, appear to qualitatively account for some of the observed features of SOAE interactions.
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Jones, K., Tubis, A., Long, G.R., Burns, E.M., Strickland, E.A. (1986). Interactions Among Multiple Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions. In: Allen, J.B., Hall, J.L., Hubbard, A.E., Neely, S.T., Tubis, A. (eds) Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50038-1_33
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