Figure 24

The cochlear nonlinearity (solid lines), inferred from Eqs. 20 and 21 respectively for two subjects (Experiment 2). 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.