“…We know that acoustic trauma does so accompanied by quick, asymptotic recruitment (Patients 3, 4, 5, 6, 22, 23 ). We know that at least one type of cochlear disorder does so, accompanied by quick but straight-line (not asymptotic) re¬ cruitment (11, 13), and that some types of cochlear disorder do so, accompanied by slight straight-line recruitment (8,9,12,16,21). We can, on the other hand, say even less about the sorts of intracochlear lesion which yield normal integrative data.…”