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Specific loss of neural sensitivity to interaural time difference of unmodulated noise stimuli following noise-induced hearing loss.

Abstract：

:Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) causes an overall deficit in binaural hearing, including the abilities to localize sound sources, discriminate interaural time and level differences (ITDs and ILDs, respectively), and utilize binaural cues to aid signal detection and comprehension in noisy environments. Few studies have examined the effect of SNHL on binaural coding in the central auditory system, and those that have focused on age-related hearing loss. We induced hearing loss in male and female Dutch-belted rabbits via noise overexposure and compared unanesthetized single-unit responses of their inferior colliculi [hearing loss (HL) neurons] with those of unexposed rabbits. Sound-level thresholds of HL neurons to diotic noise were elevated by 75 dB, on average. Sensitivity of firing rates of HL neurons to the azimuth of a broadband noise stimulus was reduced, on average, but was confounded by differences in sound level with respect to detection threshold between groups. We independently manipulated ITD and ILD in virtual acoustic space and found directional sensitivity in binaurally sensitive HL neurons was entirely due to ILD sensitivity and no different than that for unexposed rabbits. However, ITD sensitivity was completely absent in binaurally sensitive HL neurons for noise stimuli both in virtual acoustic space and with ITDs extending to ±3 ms. HL neurons also had weaker spike-timing precision and slightly increased spontaneous rates. Overall, ILD sensitivity was uncompromised, whereas ITD sensitivity was completely lost, implying a specific inability to use information in the timing or correlation of acoustic noise waveforms between the two ears following severe SNHL.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Sensorineural hearing loss compromises perceptual abilities that arise from hearing with two ears, yet its effects on binaural aspects of neural responses are largely unknown. We found that, following severe hearing loss because of acoustic trauma, auditory midbrain neurons specifically lost the ability to encode time differences between the arrival of a broadband noise stimulus to the two ears, whereas the encoding of sound level differences between the two ears remained uncompromised.

journal_name

J Neurophysiol

journal_title

Journal of neurophysiology

authors

Haragopal H,Dorkoski R,Pollard AR,Whaley GA,Wohl TR,Stroud NC,Day ML

doi

10.1152/jn.00349.2020

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-10-01 00:00:00

pages

1165-1182

issue

eissn

0022-3077

issn

1522-1598

journal_volume

124

pub_type

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Specific loss of neural sensitivity to interaural time difference of unmodulated noise stimuli following noise-induced hearing loss.