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    Critical bands following the selective destruction of cochlear inner and outer hair cells
    Nienhuys, Terry G. W. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1979)
    Critical bandwidths and absolute intensity thresholds were measured in cats before and after kanamycin treatment which induced selective inner and outer hair cell losses. Hair cell losses were measured from cochleograms constructed from surface preparations of the organ of Corti. Results suggested that, for the test frequencies and stimulus intensities employed, critical bandwidths were not affected for frequencies tonotopically located in cochlear regions where only outer hair cells were lost. Critical bands were widened or not measurable only when inner hair cell losses exceeding 40% were also associated with complete loss of outer hair cells. The experiment suggests that cochlear frequency selectivity can be mediated by inner hair cells alone.
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    Electrical network properties and distribution of potentials in the cat cochlea [Abstract]
    Black, R. C. ; Clark, Graeme M. (Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, 1978)
    The-patterns of electrical resistance and capacitance in the cochlea formed by the anatomical organisation of the tissue structures and fluids are important in determining the distribution of electrical potentials which arise during normal acoustic stimulation (von Bekesy,1951). Cochlear potential distributions have in the past been measured by recording from the scalar fluids both the spread of cochlear microphonics and also potentials due to electrical stimulation. However, similar distributions in the hair cell-nerve ending region of the organ of Corti may not necessarily occur because of current shunting effects due to the electrical network patterns. To examine these current shunting effects, a three dimensional mathematical model of the electrical properties of the cat cochlea was constructed. This was formed from a two dimensional cochlear cross-section model similar to that proposed by Johnstone et al., (1966) for the guinea pig. Sixteen such sections were resistively coupled to form the three dimensional model. Results derived from this model predict that during electrical stimulation of the cochlea, the current in the organ of Corti region attenuates quite differently to the scalar voltage by a degree which depends on the stimulus electrode configuration.