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  • Title: Adaptation in the compound action potential response of the guinea pig VIIIth nerve to electric stimulation.
    Author: Killian MJ, Klis SF, Smoorenburg GF.
    Journal: Hear Res; 1994 Dec; 81(1-2):66-82. PubMed ID: 7737931.
    Abstract:
    An experimental study, carried out in guinea pigs, was designed to investigate whether forward masking measured psychophysically in 3M-House cochlear implant users might have a correlate in VIIIth nerve activity. The study was based on electrically evoked VIIIth nerve compound action potentials (ECAPs), using a masking paradigm comparable to the one used in the psychophysical study. Trains of 50 maskers with inter-masker-intervals of 509 ms appeared to induce a long-term fatigue effect that could influence the recovery from adaptation measurements. Fatigue stabilized within about 1 to 3 min when masker trains were repeated with intervening silent intervals of 10.5 s. The change in amplitude of probe-evoked ECAPs with increasing masker-probe delays was determined within the steady fatigue state. The recovery-from-adaptation functions obtained from these measurements resembled the forward masking functions found in 3M-House cochlear implant users. No correlate of psychophysical backward masking was found at the VIIIth nerve level. To examine whether hair cells were involved in fatigue and recovery from adaptation, the measurements described above were carried out in intact cochleas and in cochleas without hair cells. Results were essentially the same in the different preparations. The results suggest that processes at the level of the VIIIth nerve could, at least partly, account for forward masking found in 3M-House cochlear implant users. Backward masking must be attributed to mechanisms located centrally to the VIIIth nerve.
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