Ma. Cheatham et P. Dallos, 2-TONE SUPPRESSION OF INNER HAIR CELL AND BASILAR-MEMBRANE RESPONSES IN THE GUINEA-PIG - COMMENT, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 94(6), 1993, pp. 3509-3510
Recent studies reveal that two-tone suppression is consistent with an
attenuation model but only for a restricted set of stimulus parameters
. The latter includes magnitude and phase changes produced by high-sid
e suppressors for probe tones at and above CF. For these conditions, r
esults at the mechanical, hair cell, and neural levels are in accord.
However, when high-side suppressors are used to decrease responses bel
ow CF, data from IHCs in the apical half of the cochlea do not reveal
the large phase leads predicted by an attenuation model. Further infor
mation from basal-turn IHCs may help to understand this incompatibilit
y.