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Original Article

Temporal Summation in Acoustic Reflex Growth Functions S

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Pages 177-182 | Received 09 Apr 1980, Published online: 08 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Acoustic reflex growth functions for pure tone activators of 500, 1000 and 2000 Hz and a broad-band noise (BBN) were obtained with activator durations of 20,200 and 1000 msec (10 msec rise/decay) in four young, normal subjects. the lowest reflex thresholds were obtained for the 1000 msec activators, followed by 200 msec and then 20 msec. the reflex growth functions revealed lower reflex magnitudes for the shorter duration activators. When normalized to account for temporal summation at reflex threshold, reflex magnitude growth was similar among the three durations at 500 Hz, slower for 20 msec than for 200 and 1000 msec at 1000 Hz, and became progressively slower with decreasing duration from 1000 to 200 to 20 msec at 2000 Hz. When expressed in SPL, the BBN growth functions reasonably resembled those at 2000 Hz. No particular pattern was revealed for the normalized BBN growth functions.

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