Conventional and cross‐correlation brain‐stem auditory‐evoked responses in the white leghorn chick: Rate manipulations

1994 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 2136-2144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Burkard ◽  
Sherri Jones ◽  
Timothy Jones
1980 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 797-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Dobie ◽  
Ben M. Clopton

In linear systems analysis, a system is often studied by determining its response to impulsive stimulation. Alternatively, the system's response to continuous noise may be measured; cross-correlation of input and output then yields a function identical to the impulse response. This approach has been extended to auditory evoked responses, using vertex potentials as the system output. Although the auditory system, viewed as a brain stem evoked response generator, is highly nonlinear, replicable cross-correlograms were obtained in a series of guinea pigs. Stimulus artifact was ruled out by comparison of these responses with autocorrelograms of the noise stimulus. Responses decreased in amplitude with decreasing stimulus intensity. Experiments involving brain stem lesions and anoxia suggested that the short-latency cross-correlogram reflects cochlear microphonic, auditory nerve, and brain stem contributions. Study of bioelectric potentials by cross-correlation with noise input allows data acquisition continuously, without the limitations in stimulus repetition rate and dynamic range imposed by impulse (eg, click) analysis. This approach may prove useful in both experimental and clinical settings.


2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-64
Author(s):  
Khalil Kayed ◽  
Reidar Kloster

1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Schulman-Galambos ◽  
Robert Galambos

Brain stem auditory-evoked responses were recorded in 24 infants ranging in age from six-weeks premature to term. At a given age, the latency of the response increased with decreasing stimulus intensity. Further, as age increased, there was a systematic decrease in latency of the response at each sound intensity level. The response was shown not to be susceptible to fatigue or sleep stage. It may, therefore, be of use for evaluating auditory function in high-risk newborn infants.


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