Fig. 1.

Magnitude (A) and phase (B) responses at 2f1-f2 in a sensitive cochlea (solid lines) and an insensitive cochlea (dotted lines), and the magnitude and phase transfer functions at different sound pressure (panels C and D). Data were measured from the same longitudinal location. Dramatic difference between the results in the sensitive preparation and those under post-mortem conditions show that the observed emission response of the BM is closely related to cochlear sensitivity. The magnitude response peaks at 2f1-f2 in panel A are very similar to the BF (15 kHz) shown in panel C.