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  • Title: Postnatal development of physiological responses in auditory nerve fibers.
    Author: Dolan DF, Teas DC, Walton JP.
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am; 1985 Aug; 78(2):544-54. PubMed ID: 4031253.
    Abstract:
    The discharges of auditory nerve fibers in kittens 4-37 days of age were recorded from micropipette electrodes. Tuning curves, thresholds, and the degree of tuning (Q 10) are compared over this age range. The tuning curves for fibers during the first postnatal week are relatively flat, with thresholds above 100 dB SPL. The response areas of VIII-nerve fibers during this period are restricted to low-to-middle frequencies. With increasing age there is a reduction in threshold and an increase in the sharpness of tuning which is dependent on fiber CF. Response characteristics similar to adult VIII-nerve fibers were observed first for fibers with CFs near 5 kHz. For the response measures used here, VIII-nerve fibers in kittens are adultlike by the third to fourth postnatal week. The results are discussed in relation to the morphological development of the cochlea reported by other investigators.
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