The medial-olivocochlear reflex activates and deactivates with exponential time courses.

Evidence

Inspired by the exponential time courses of activation and deactivation of the contralateral MOCR (Backus and Guinan 2006 ), the instantaneous output energy from the contralateral processor, E , was calculated as the root-mean-square (RMS) output amplitude integrated over a preceding exponentially decaying time window with two time constants. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1949

Categorization

• QUESTION: The two time constants (4 and 29 ms here) are cited as inspired by natural MOCR activation and deactivation — worth verifying those natural values against the original Backus and Guinan study.