The response of guinea pig primary utricular and saccular irregular neurons to bone-conducted vibration (BCV) and air-conducted sound (ACS).

CONCLUSION: These results are in accord with the hypothesis put forward by Young et al. (1977) that each individual cycle of the waveform, either BCV or ACS, is the effective stimulus to the receptor hair cells on either macula. We suggest that each cycle of the BCV or ACS stimulus causes fluid displacement which deflects the short, stiff, hair bundles of type I receptors at the striola and so triggers the phase-locked neural response of primary otolithic afferents. PMID: 26626360 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hearing Research - Category: Audiology Authors: Tags: Hear Res Source Type: research