Tympanic Muscles and Control of Auditory Input during Arousal
- 6 May 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 131 (3410), 1371-1372
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.131.3410.1371
Abstract
A reticular stimulation producing a powerful arousal reaction decreases the potential in the cochlear nucleus evoked by a click. This reduction results from the contraction of the middle ear muscles, which lessens the pressure transmitted to the cochlea, and is not due to a direct neural inhibitory effect at the level of the first synapse of the auditory pathway.Keywords
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