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  • Title: Easy and Hard Auditory Tasks Distinguished by Otoacoustic Emissions and Event-related Potentials: Insights into Efferent System Activity.
    Author: Jedrzejczak WW, Milner R, Pilka E, Ganc M, Skarzynski H.
    Journal: Neuroscience; 2022 May 21; 491():87-97. PubMed ID: 35398177.
    Abstract:
    The medial olivocochlear (MOC) system is thought to be responsible for modulation of peripheral hearing through descending (efferent) pathways. This study investigates the connection between peripheral hearing function and auditory attention tasks of different degrees of difficulty. Peripheral hearing function was evaluated by analyzing the amount of change in otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) by contralateral acoustic stimulation (CAS), a well-known effect of the MOC system. Simultaneously, levels of attention were evaluated by event-related potentials (ERPs). The ERPs showed clear differences in processing tasks of different difficulty, but paradoxically there was no difference in the amount of OAE change brought about by CAS. There was also no effect on OAE latency, nor was there any difference in noise level or number of rejected trials. However, we observed that the changes in OAEs by CAS for easy and hard tasks were correlated with the magnitude of the P3 wave in the ERP. This suggests there might be some sort of mutual compensation mechanism - presently unknown - between periphery and cortex.
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