Jurado, C;
Marquardt, T;
On the Effectiveness of airborne infrasound in eliciting vestibular-evoked myogenic responses.
Journal of Low Frequency Noise Vibration and Active Control
10.1177/1461348419833868.
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Abstract
The use of airborne infrasound and other stimuli to elicit (cervical) vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) was studied to address the common proposition that infrasound may efficiently stimulate the vestibular system, an effect which may underlie the so-called wind-turbine syndrome. cVEMPs were measured for both ears of 15 normal-hearing subjects using three types of airborne sound stimulation: (1) 500-Hz tone bursts (transient); (2) 500-Hz sinusoidally amplitude-modulated tones at a 40-Hz rate (SAM); and (3) low-frequency and infrasound pure tones (LF/IS). The two former stimulation types served as control and allowed a systematic comparison with (3). It was found that SAM stimulation is effective and appears to be comparable to transient stimulation, as was previously observed in a yet small number of studies. Although the vestibular system is reported to be highly sensitive to low-frequency mechanical vibration, airborne LF/IS stimulation at �80–90-phon loudness levels did not elicit significant saccular vestibular responses.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | On the Effectiveness of airborne infrasound in eliciting vestibular-evoked myogenic responses |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1461348419833868 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1461348419833868 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials, wind turbines, infrasound and low-frequency hearing, wind-turbine noise syndrome, hearing and balance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > The Ear Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072249 |
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