The anatomy and physiology of olivocochlear (OC) efferents are reviewed. To help interpret
these, recent advances in cochlear mechanics are also reviewed. Lateral OC (LOC) …

Olivocochlear efferents allow the central auditory system to adjust the functioning of the
inner ear during active and passive listening. While many aspects of efferent anatomy …

It has become widely accepted that humans use contextual information to infer the meaning
of ambiguous acoustic signals. In speech, for example, high-level semantic, syntactic, or …

The role of the mammalian auditory olivocochlear efferent system in hearing has long been
the subject of debate. Its ability to protect against damaging noise exposure is clear, but …

Atypical medial olivocochlear (MOC) feedback from brain stem to cochlea has been
proposed to play a role in tinnitus, but even well-constructed tests of this idea have yielded …

The mammalian cochlea receives feedback from the brainstem medial olivocochlear (MOC)
efferents, whose putative 'antimasking'function is to adjust cochlear amplification and …

Everyday speech perception is challenged by external acoustic interferences that hinder
verbal communication. Here, we directly compared how different levels of the auditory …

The medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferent system modifies cochlear output to aid signal
detection in noise, but the precise role of efferents in speech-in-noise understanding …

Feedback networks in the brain regulate downstream auditory function as peripheral as the
cochlea. However, the upstream neural consequences of this peripheral regulation are less …

Objectives: The medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferent system can modify cochlear function to
improve sound detection in noise, but its role in speech perception in noise is unclear. The …