Objectives To evaluate the effect of contralateral acoustic stimuli on speech identification
scores and to correlate this effect to contralateral suppression of evoked otoacoustic …

A common complaint of children with auditory processing disorders (APD) is difficulty in
understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Evidence from animal and …

The activity of the medial olivocochlear bundle (MOCB) can be studied in humans through
variations in the level of evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAEs) elicited by contralateral …

To investigate the involvement of auditory efferents in hearing‐in‐noise in humans,
olivocochlear bundle (OCB) functioning and detection‐in‐noise abilities were compared in …

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 …

Although some findings suggest that auditory efferent fibers are involved in perception in
noise, their function remains controversial. The contralateral suppression of evoked …

Earlier we presented data (Scharf et al.(1994) Hear. Res. 75, 11–26) from a young patient
(SB) who had undergone a vestibular neurotomy, during which the olivocochlear bundle …

The medial olivocochlear efferent bundle is the key element of a bilateral efferent reflex
activated by sound in either ear and acting directly on cochlear outer hair cells (OHC) via …

FOLLOWING studies proposing that medial olivocochlear efferents might be involved in the
processing of complex signals in noise, we tested the involvement of efferent feedback in …

Background: One purported role of the medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferent system is to
reduce the effects of masking noise. MOC system functioning can be evaluated …