Auditory brainstem responses (ABR) conducted on one ear of (A) a hearing animal and (B) an early-deaf animal. In each panel, the waveforms are arranged according to stimulation intensity, from highest (80 dB SPL – top) to lowest (10 dB SPL – bottom). Stimuli consisted of clicks (0.1 ms, rarefication, 4000 repetitions) presented through a minispeaker positioned directly in front of the external acoustic meatus. For the hearing animal, hearing threshold occurred at ~20 dB SPL while no acoustically-induced activity was observed in the early-deaf animal at any stimulation intensity.