Figure 23

The cochlear nonlinearity (solid lines), inferred from Eqs. 17, 18 and 19 respectively for three subjects (Experiment 1). The dashed lines show the hypothetical nonlinearity of Schairer et al. [4], as seen in Figure 3. It has been adjusted to start at the same point as the solid lines, which are made to originate at an “output” of 0 dB and at each subject’s absolute detection threshold for the probe-tone. The dotted lines extrapolate the inferred nonlinearities beyond the limits set by the measurements.