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Re: Sources of DPOAEs.
Dear Reinhart and others,
in order to explain OAEs we do not need to assume traveling waves of any
kind. A large number of lizard species with free-standing hair bundles
produce spontaneous OAEs. These animals have no tectorial membrane and they
do not generate traveling waves in their inner ears.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16307854
For this reason, also DPOAEs in lizards are generated in the absence of
traveling waves. As yet, nobody could demonstrate that DPOAEs in mammals are
dependent on traveling waves.
Some people like traveling waves. Even as sources of OAEs. But not all that
we like exists in reality.
Martin
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