Distortion products and backward-traveling waves in nonlinear active models of the cochlea |
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Authors: | Sisto Renata Moleti Arturo Botti Teresa Bertaccini Daniele Shera Christopher A |
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Institution: | Dipartimento Igiene del Lavoro, INAIL, Via Fontana Candida 1, 00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Rome, Italy. |
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Abstract: | This study explores the phenomenology of distortion products in nonlinear cochlear models, predicting their amplitude and phase along the basilar membrane. The existence of a backward-traveling wave at the distortion-product frequency, which has been recently questioned by experiments measuring the phase of basilar-membrane vibration, is discussed. The effect of different modeling choices is analyzed, including feed-forward asymmetry, micromechanical roughness, and breaking of scaling symmetry. The experimentally observed negative slope of basilar-membrane phase is predicted by numerical simulations of nonlinear cochlear models under a wide range of parameters and modeling choices. In active models, positive phase slopes are predicted by the quasi-linear analytical computations and by the fully nonlinear numerical simulations only if the distortion-product sources are localized apical to the observation point and if the stapes reflectivity is unrealistically small. The results of this study predict a negative phase slope whenever the source is distributed over a reasonably wide cochlear region and/or a reasonably high stapes reflectivity is assumed. Therefore, the above-mentioned experiments do not contradict "classical" models of cochlear mechanics and of distortion-product generation. |
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