Intracochlear overdrive: Characterizing nonlinear wave amplification in the mouse apex

Mice Motion Amplifiers, Electronic Radio Waves Animals Basilar Membrane Cochlea
DOI: 10.1121/10.0022446 Publication Date: 2023-11-28T13:27:32Z
ABSTRACT
In this study, we explore nonlinear cochlear amplification by analyzing basilar membrane (BM) motion in the mouse apex. Through in vivo, postmortem, and mechanical suppression recordings, we estimate how the cochlear amplifier nonlinearly shapes the wavenumber of the BM traveling wave, specifically within a frequency range where the short-wave approximation holds. Our findings demonstrate that a straightforward mathematical model, depicting the cochlear amplifier as a wavenumber modifier with strength diminishing monotonically as BM displacement increases, effectively accounts for the various experimental observations. This empirically derived model is subsequently incorporated into a physics-based “overturned” framework of cochlear amplification [see Altoè, Dewey, Charaziak, Oghalai, and Shera (2022), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152, 2227–2239] and tested against additional experimental data. Our results demonstrate that the relationships established within the short-wave region remain valid over a much broader frequency range. Furthermore, the model, now exclusively calibrated to BM data, predicts the behavior of the opposing side of the cochlear partition, aligning well with recent experimental observations. The success in reproducing key features of the experimental data and the mathematical simplicity of the resulting model provide strong support for the “overturned” theory of cochlear amplification.
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