Frequency Discrimination Following the Selective Destruction of Cochlear Inner and Outer Hair Cells
- 24 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 199 (4335) , 1356-1357
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.628846
Abstract
Frequency discrimination was measured behaviorally before and after drug-induced lesions of cochlear hair cells in the cat. Discrimination was unaffected by complete loss of outer hair cells provided that at least 50% of inner hair cells were intact. Thus, inner hair cells are important for frequency discrimination, and they can function normally in this regard without the influence of outer hair cells.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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