Middle-Ear Muscle Activity and Temporary Threshold Shift

Predicting mechanical damage to the organ of Corti

“…Certainly this would be true for the later impulses in a chain of stimuli. There is also evidence that the human middle ear muscles are conditionable (Brasher et al, 1969;Djupesland, 1965Djupesland, , 1964Marshall et al, 1975;Yonovitz, 1976), which means that they may contract when there is some signal that an impulse is about to arrive, i.e. a ''fire'' command is given or the person may be firing his own weapon and can anticipate the arrival of the impulse.…”