Fast and slow effects of medial olivocochlear efferent activity in humans.
The medial olivocochlear Media Units (MOC) pathway modulates basilar membrane motion and auditory nerve activity on both a fast (10-100 ms) and a slow (10-100 s) time scale in guinea pigs.The slow MOC modulation of cochlear activity is postulated to aide in protection against acoustic trauma.However in humans, the existence and functional roles of