Suppression-based gain estimates compare on-frequency masker thresholds against off-frequency baselines

Evidence

At the signal frequency place, the BM response to the 1.2-kHz masker should be approximately linear, even with MOCR stimulation (Cooper and Guinan 2006 ). The 2.4-kHz masker frequency was chosen because it has produced substantial suppression of a 2-kHz masker in previous studies with young adults (Shannon 1976 ; Sommers and Gehr 2010 ). Gain was estimated as the difference in threshold between the on-frequency masker and the 1.2-kHz masker (Yasin et al. 2014 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 930

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how cochlear gain is operationally estimated: the threshold difference between an on-frequency and a more linear off-frequency masker.