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Characterizing spontaneous otoacoustic emissions across the human lifespan.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2017 March
This study characterizes 1571 archival and newly acquired spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) from 632 human subjects with ages ranging from premature birth through the seventh decade of life. Automated detection and Lorentzian modeling were applied to identify SOAEs and characterize SOAE features throughout the human lifespan. Results confirm higher-level, higher-frequency, and more numerous SOAEs from neonates compared to young adults. Approximately 85% of newborns have measurable SOAEs as compared to 51%-68% for young adults. Newborn SOAEs are also an average of 5 to 6 dB higher in level than those from young-adult ears. These age differences may reflect immature ear-canal acoustics and/or the pristine condition of the neonatal cochlea. In addition, newborns as a group showed broader SOAE bandwidth and increased frequency jitter, possibly due to higher intracochlear noise; additionally, 22% of newborn SOAEs had a different, non-Lorentzian spectral shape. Aging effects were also observed: 40% of elderly ears had SOAEs, and these were greatly reduced in level, likely due to lower power gain in the aging cochlea. For all ages, SOAE bandwidths decreased with frequency in a way that mirrors the frequency dependence of stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emission delays as predicted by the standing-wave model of SOAE generation.
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