Age-related changes in envelope-following responses at equalized peripheral or central activation

Accepted Manuscript Age-related changes in envelope-following responses at equalized peripheral or central activation Jesyin Lai, Alexandra L. Sommer, Edward L. Bartlett PII:

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Age-related changes in envelope-following responses at equalized

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peripheral or central activation

Jesyin Laia , Alexandra L. Sommera , Edward L. Bartletta, b,* a

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

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Abstract

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Previous work has debated about comparisons of hearing abilities

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faced with alterations in hearing thresholds and evoked potentials be-

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tween groups following acoustic trauma- or age-related changes. This

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study compares envelope following responses (EFRs) of young and

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aged rats when sound levels were matched according to (1) wave I

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amplitudes of auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) elicited by 8 kHz

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tones or (2) EFR amplitudes evoked by sinusoidally amplitude modu-

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lated (SAM) tones at 100 % depth. Matched wave I amplitudes across

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age corresponded to approximately 20 dB sound level differences. For

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matched wave I, no age-related differences were observed in wave V am-

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plitudes. However, EFRs recorded in quiet were enhanced with aging

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at 100 % but not 25 % depth, consistent with enhanced central gain

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in aging. For matched EFRs, there were no age-related differences

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in EFRs of AM depth and AM frequency processing. These results

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suggest novel, objective measures beyond threshold to compensate for

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differences in auditory nerve activation and to differentiate peripheral

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and central contributions of EFRs.

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Introduction

Auditory temporal processing deficits can be due to age-related cochlear neuropathy [Bharadwaj et al., 2014, Sergeyenko et al., 2013], endocochlear

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potential reduction following age-related changes in stria vascularis and di-

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minished prestin activity [Buckiova et al., 2007, Bielefeld et al., 2008, Chen

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et al., 2009] or imbalances in excitation versus inhibition in the central audi1

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tory pathway [Caspary et al., 2008]. These deficits exist in nearly all listen-

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ers and proceed gradually throughout adulthood [Fitzgibbons and Gordon-

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Salant, 2010, Snell and Frisina, 2000, Snell et al., 2002, Ruggles et al., 2012].

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Early stages of a “normal” age-related auditory functional decline may include

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relatively small threshold shifts, mainly at high frequencies, as well as reduc-

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tions in wave I ABR amplitudes due to cochlear synaptopathy [Sergeyenko

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et al., 2013]. Cochlear synaptopathy, which can be caused by aging even with

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no history of noise exposure, is a phenomenon marked by disappearance of

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synapses and cochlear-nerve terminals innervating the hair cell [Sergeyenko

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et al., 2013, Viana et al., 2015]. Following synaptic loss, degeneration of

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spiral ganglion cell bodies occurs after a delay of several months and the

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whole process is termed cochlear neuropathy [Makary et al., 2011]. Cochlear

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neuropathy results in a decrease in auditory nerve fiber (ANF) population

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size, but does not significantly affect pure tone thresholds [Sergeyenko et al.,

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2013]. Instead, precise coding of temporal fine-structure and envelope cues

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of supra-threshold sounds are compromised in these older listeners with clini-

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cally normal hearing thresholds (NHTs; ≤20 dB hearing level) [Ruggles et al.,

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2012, Moore, 2016]. As this type of auditory disorder is found in listeners

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with clinically normal audiogram, it has been described as "hidden hearing

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loss" [Schaette and McAlpine, 2011]. Temporal cues, including temporal fine structure and envelope or ampli-

tude modulation (AM), as well as the depth of signal modulations can be

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used by the auditory system for speech recognition and sound perception

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in complex environments such as the presence of competing sounds, back-

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ground noise and reverberated energy [Shannon et al., 1995, Zeng et al., 2

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2005, Snell and Frisina, 2000, Srinivasan and Zahorik, 2014]. Due to re-

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duced temporal salience and resolution, listeners with temporal processing

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deficits have perceptual difficulties in spatial sound localization, pitch cod-

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ing, speech-on-speech as well as speech-in-noise masking release [Stellmack

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et al., 2010, Jørgensen and Dau, 2011, Christiansen et al., 2013]. Many

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behavioral studies reveal older listeners with NHTs have poor performance

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on psychoacoustic tasks that heavily rely on temporal information in supra-

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threshold sounds as well as speech-in-noise tests [Ruggles et al., 2012, Grose

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and Mamo, 2010, Strelcyk and Dau, 2009, Frisina and Frisina, 1997, Strouse

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et al., 1998, Dubno, 1984]. Moreover, brain responses to AM stimuli reflect-

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ing reduced auditory temporal acuity in older subjects are also demonstrated

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in evoked potential studies [Purcell et al., 2004, Parthasarathy and Bartlett,

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2011, Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2012, Boettcher et al., 2001]. Age-related

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decline in temporal processing has also been reported in the auditory mid-

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brain in some single-unit studies [Walton et al., 2002, Walton et al., 1998, Ra-

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bang et al., 2012].

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elicited by temporally modulated stimuli, are used because these responses

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reflect how faithfully subcortical regions along the central auditory pathway

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phase-lock to the envelope of an input signal [Cunningham et al., 2001, Aiken and Picton, 2008, Parthasarathy et al., 2010, Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2011, Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2012, Dolphin and Mountain, 1993]. The

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primary generators of EFRs have shown to be the auditory brainstem and

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midbrain [Herdman et al., 2002, Kuwada et al., 2002, Picton et al., 2003,

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Chandrasekaran and Kraus, 2010, Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2012]. Pur3

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cell et al. (2004) measured EFRs using temporally modulated sounds in

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quiet and showed that EFRs are correlated with behavior in humans. Pur-

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cell’s study used the same sound level in EFRs and psychoacoustic tasks

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for young and aged subjects. The prevailing assumption is that larger EFR

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amplitudes or speech-evoked ABR responses are correlated with better be-

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havioral perception [Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2011, Mamo et al., 2016].

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One major factor that may complicate interpretations is the sound level

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at which stimuli are presented. In the past, most evoked potential studies

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have presented sounds at equal levels [Boettcher et al., 2001, Purcell et al.,

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2004, Clinard et al., 2010] or similar sensation levels [Parthasarathy et al.,

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2010, Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2011], meaning a similar amount above

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an individual’s hearing threshold. However, equal levels do not account for

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hearing threshold differences given the wide range of clinically normal hear-

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ing. Equal sensation levels may not account for diminished auditory nerve

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activation due to cochlear synaptopathy and/or neuropathy. In fact, cochlear

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synaptopathy and neuropathy has added challenges to studies that compare

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temporal coding in young and aged listeners because central effects are usu-

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ally confounded and compounded by peripheral effects. A degradation in the

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peripheral auditory system will definitely affect subsequent auditory process-

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ing in the central auditory system. As a result, without matching peripheral neural activation, a reduction in central neural responses would imply either a true degradation in central auditory processing independent of the periph-

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eral auditory system or a decline originating from the peripheral auditory

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system. To remove or reduce confounding effects from the auditory periph-

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may allow more appropriate comparisons across age to be performed. In order to address this issue, we compared neural temporal coding of

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young and aged Fischer-344 rats using stimulus intensities that matched ac-

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cording to wave I amplitudes of ABRs or according to EFRs at different mod-

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ulation frequencies. Sergeyenko et al. (2013) have shown that reductions in

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auditory brainstem response (ABR) wave I amplitude indicate reduced ANFs

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or decreased synaptic transmission between ANFs and inner hair cells (IHCs).

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Hence, we attempted to equate peripheral activation by adjusting sound lev-

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els in young animals to match to aged animals’ median tone 8 kHz ABR wave

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I amplitudes at 85 dB pSPL. In addition to age-related changes in the audi-

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tory periphery, gain of the central auditory system has also been reported to

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increase to compensate for reduced ANF activation in aging [Parthasarathy

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et al., 2014, Kotak and Sanes, 2003, Miko and Sanes, 2009]. Therefore, we

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attempted to match central population activation by matching the young

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EFRs to the median of the aged EFRs evoked by 100 % depth AM tones

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at 85 dB SPL. Matching ABR wave I amplitudes should putatively match

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AN activation and synchronization across age, which should enable better

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comparisons of central auditory temporal responses. Meanwhile, matching

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EFR amplitudes at 100 % AM depth may equate synchronization of central

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neurons, which may aid in identifying whether population synchronization is robust to reduced salience of modulation, as well as demonstrating the extent of central gain relative to their peripheral activation.

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As the envelope and AM depth of a sound are crucially relevant to speech

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perception [Krause and Braida, 2009] and neural temporal coding, we utilized

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sinusoidal AM (SAM) tones at various AM frequencies (AMFs) and at various 5

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AM depths in this study.

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Young (3-6 months, 13 male and 5 female) and aged (21-24 months, 14

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male and 9 female) Fischer-344 rats obtained from Taconic were used. The

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numbers of animals that were used in each recording session were mentioned

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in each respective figure legend in the results. All animals were housed in

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the animal care facility during the period of this study in a relatively quiet

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and standard condition. All protocols were approved by the Purdue Animal

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Care and Use Committee (PACUC-1111000167).

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The experimental protocols used for ABR and EFR recordings were similar

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to previously described details in Lai and Bartlett (2015), and Parthasarathy

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and Bartlett (2012). All auditory evoked potential recordings were performed

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in a 9’x9’ double-walled anechoic chamber (Industrial Acoustic Corporation).

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Materials and Methods

The animals were anesthetized with isofluorane at 4 % initially. While maintaining the animals under 1.5-2 % isofluorane, subdermal needle electrodes (Ambu) were placed on the animals’ scalps in a two-channel configuration.

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For channel 1, a positive electrode was placed along the midline of the fore-

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head in the Cz to Fz position. For channel 2, another positive electrode was

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placed horizontally along the interaural line, which is above the location of

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the inferior colliculus. For both channels, the negative electrode was placed

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under the ipsilateral ear, along the mastoid, while the ground electrode was

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placed in the nape of the neck. Electrode impedance was confirmed to be less

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than 3 kΩ as tested using a low-impedance amplifier (RA4LI, Tucker Davis

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Technologies or TDT). Before removing from anesthesia, the animals were in-

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jected (intramuscular) with dexmedetomidine (Dexdomitor, 0.2 mg/kg), an

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α-adrenergic agonist acting as a sedative and an analgesic. After a 15-minute

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waiting period for the effect of the anesthesia to wear off, the animals were

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maintained in an unanesthetized condition, where they still had a foot pinch

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response but were immobile and relaxed for 2.5-3 hours during recording.

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All stimuli were presented free-field to the right ear of the animal at a

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distance of 115 cm from the speaker. The speaker was calibrated using a

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Bruel Kjaer microphone placing at the same distance and SigCal software

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(TDT). Stimuli were generated using SigGenRP (TDT) at a 100-kHz sam-

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pling rate. Stimulus presentation and response acquisition were conducted

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using BioSig software (TDT). Waveforms were converted to sounds and deliv-

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ered through a multichannel processor (RX6, TDT) via a Bower and Wilkins

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DM601 speaker. Digitized response waveforms were recorded with a multi-

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channel recording and stimulation system (Rz5, TDT). Responses were ana-

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Tone 8 kHz ABRs were recorded using brief 8 kHz pure tones of 2 ms duration

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(0.5 ms cos2 rise/fall time), alternating polarity and presenting at 26.6/sec.

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The acquisition window was set to 30 ms and each ABR was acquired as an

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average of 1500 repetitions. Stimulus intensity of the pure tone was decreased

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from 95 dB pSPL to 15 dB pSPL in 5-dB steps. This enabled us to obtain

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the animal’s hearing threshold at 8 kHz as well as the magnitude of wave I at

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each sound level, which was used as an indicator for the amount of activated

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ANFs. The median of tone 8 kHz ABR wave I amplitudes at 85 dB pSPL

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from aged animals was calculated and used for stimulus intensity matching

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of peripheral activation in young animals in subsequent EFR recordings.

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SAM stimuli with a carrier frequency of 8 kHz and 200 ms duration (5 ms

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cos2 rise/fall time) were used as stimuli to elicit EFRs. The carrier frequency

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was chosen to be near the most sensitive regions of the rat’s audiogram where

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fewer age-related threshold changes in that frequency’s threshold have been

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observed [Parthasarathy et al., 2014]. Stimuli were presented at a rate of 3.1/sec and each EFR response was acquired as an average of 200 repetitions using an acquisition window of 300 ms. SAM stimuli modulated at 100 %

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depth at 45, 128 and 256 Hz were presented at 85 dB SPL to all aged animals

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to obtain a median EFR magnitude for each AMF. In young animals, SAM

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found that this level range was appropriate to identify sound intensities for

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matching EFR amplitude. Young animals’ EFR magnitudes of each AMF at

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each sound level were estimated and were then used to determine stimulus

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intensity that matched to central activation of aged animals in subsequent

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Stimulus intensities were fixed at 85 dB SPL for all stimuli when presented

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to aged animals. In young animals, however, lower stimulus intensities were

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used. To equate peripheral activation, sound levels were selected based on

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tone 8 kHz ABR wave I amplitudes that were closest to aged animals’ median

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wave I amplitudes at 85 dB pSPL. To equate central activation, sound levels

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were determined based on EFR magnitudes (evoked by each AMF at 100 %

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depth) that were closest to aged animals’ median EFR magnitudes at 85 dB

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widening of the auditory filter, Q10 s of aged animals are generally smaller

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sounds are played in this study, it is likely that AMFs up to 1024 Hz are

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ABR waveforms were high-pass filtered at 30 Hz and low-pass filtered at

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3000 Hz. ABR wave amplitudes of wave I and V were measured using BioSig

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software (TDT) by placing a cursor at the average of the noise floor and

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another cursor at the peak of the wave. The difference between the two

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for 45 Hz AM stimuli) and at 80 Hz for AMFs faster than 90 Hz. Filtered

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MATLAB programs. Fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) were performed on the time-domain waveform from 10 to 190 ms relative to stimulus onset to exclude transient ABRs at the beginning. The maximum magnitude of the

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evoked response at one of the three frequency bins (3 Hz/bin) around AMF

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was measured as the peak FFT amplitude. The noise floor was calculated

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three bins. A peak response was taken to be significantly above noise level

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if the FFT amplitude was at least 6 dB above the noise floor for the slower

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AMFs and at least 10 dB above the noise floor for AMFs faster than 64 Hz,

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tudes between young and aged animals because the distributions of the aged

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amplitudes may not be normally distributed. Repeated measures ANOVAs

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(rmANOVAs) were performed to compare FFT amplitudes of young and aged

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groups as well as across different stimulus conditions using custom written

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of least squares (LS) means. Data distributions were checked for normality

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differences in LS means with a confidence level of 95 % were used when re-

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Matching Mean sound level dB SP (S.E.M.) Peripheral activation 66.3 (1.33), N = 17 (ABR wave I amp.) 45 Hz: 71.0 (1.39), N = 15 Central activation 128 Hz: 68.3 (1.18), N = 9 (EFR amp.) 256 Hz: 69.9 (1.34), N = 18

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Table 1: Sound levels used for central matching in the young were slightly higher than those used for peripheral matching according to the protocol. Mean sound levels presented to the young for matched peripheral and central activation are reported in the table. Standard errors of means (S.E.M.) are shown in parentheses.

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aged and 28.7 +/- 1.6 dB SPL in the young. For 8 kHz tone ABRs, the

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dB SPL in the young. The thresholds of click ABRs were 10.89 +/- 1.48

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hearing regions at 6-16 kHz, and the current 8 kHz threshold differences are slightly larger than previously reported [Parthasarathy et al., 2014]. All the stimulus intensities used in aged animals were fixed at 85 dB SPL, which

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central matching, the young sound levels were matched specifically for each

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AMF (45, 128 or 256 Hz) at 100 % modulation depth. A rmANOVA showed

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that sound intensities for peripheral matching were significantly lower than

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sound intensities for central matching at 45 (t=3.15, p < 0.05) and 256 Hz

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(t=3.15, p < 0.05) AMFs, respectively.

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Figure 1a shows the distributions of tone 8 kHz ABR wave I amplitudes

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mals. Figures 1b-d are scatter plots showing EFR amplitudes at each AMF

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ing. Although the medians of young and aged animals were matched, there

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was a wider range in aged animals. For aged animals, correlations between

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ABR wave I amplitudes and EFR amplitudes were significant for 256 Hz and

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marginally significant for 128 Hz. For young animals, correlations between

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ABR wave I amplitudes and EFR amplitudes were not observed for any of

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the tested SAM because EFR amplitudes of the young were selected to be

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close (within 1 +/- SD) to the aged median. Again, EFR amplitudes of the

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aged were found to be varied more than the young. ABR wave V amplitudes

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ripheral activation. The histograms of wave V amplitudes or wave V/wave

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I ratios for the two age groups are shown in Fig. 2. The young histograms had a narrower spread than the aged histograms. However, there were no significant age-related differences in wave V amplitudes and wave V/wave I ratios according to the results of a non-parametric rank-sum test.

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tion. Although the spreads of the histograms of the young and the aged were

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not completely overlapping, there were no significant age-related differences

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using non-parametric rank-sum tests. The scatter plots of EFR amplitude

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vs. ABR wave I amplitude at matched central activation for each AMF were

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plotted in Figures 3d-f. The correlations between ABR wave I amplitudes

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and EFR amplitudes were significant for 256 Hz and marginally significant

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for 128 Hz in aged animals. The variations of the young ABR wave I ampli-

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tudes at each AMF were larger because wave I amplitudes were not matched

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When EFR amplitudes were recorded at sound levels that evoked maxi-

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mal EFRs, there were significant age-related differences at larger modulation

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depths for 128 and 256 Hz AMFs [Parthasarathy and Bartlett, 2012]. The

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sound levels used, however, could synchronize different amount of neurons

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peripherally or centrally. Therefore, AM depth processing was compared at

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matched neural activation to test the existences of age-related differences

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at a "fairer" condition. SAM tones at 45, 128 or 256 Hz with modulation

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aged animals at matched peripheral or central activation. EFR amplitudes as a function of modulation depth were plotted in Figure 4 for the modulation frequencies tested. Almost no significant age-related differences were

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Figure 1: Tone 8 kHz ABR wave I amplitudes of young animals were matched to the median of aged animals’ amplitudes to equate neural excitation in the auditory periphery. (a) Histograms of tone 8 kHz ABR wave I amplitudes of all young (red solid bars) and aged (white bars) animals show that the range of the younger amplitudes was narrower and their median was close to the aged median. Scatter plots of each individual animal’s EFR amplitude to (b) 45, (c) 128, or (d) 256 Hz at matched ABR wave I amplitude also show that variation was larger in aged animals. In the scatter plots, N denotes number of animals, Y denotes the young, A denotes the aged, r indicates correlation coefficient, and p indicates p-value.

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In this study, we investigated age-related changes of EFRs elicited by SAM tones at equivalent peripheral or central neural activation. As recent evidence has demonstrated that listeners with cochlear synaptopthy and/or

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listeners is not sufficient. Furthermore, the 20 dB range of clinically normal

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hearing can permit a wide range of audibility in human studies. However,

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on comparable physiological responses. To account for cochlear synaptopa-

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thy and neuropathy as well as age-related changes in hearing sensitivity, we

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[Rowe, 1981, Chen and Chen, 1991]. Previous studies in rodents and mam-

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with ABR wave I amplitude as well [Bramhall et al., 2015]. In the auditory

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periphery, cochlear filter shapes and frequency specificity could be different

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The sound levels that we were using for young animals were ∼ 43 dB

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hearing threshold (∼ 39.5 dB SPL). The filter shapes of auditory neurons at 8 kHz for young and aged animals were estimated using an auditory nerve model [Parthasarathy et al., 2016] in order to calculate the Q-values. The es-

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in Q-values was due more to an upward shift in hearing threshold. There-

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fore, the region of basilar membrane excited in order to achieve comparable

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wave I amplitudes was larger with aging, which may partially compensate for

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the loss of IHC-AN synapses. It also suggests that at these supra-threshold

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minished AN input [Parthasarathy et al., 2014, Kotak and Sanes, 2003, Miko

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gain, we attempted to equate central neural activation in a separate test by

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matching EFR amplitudes in young and aged animals. As EFR amplitude

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complex sounds [Picton et al., 2003, Cunningham et al., 2001, Aiken and Pic-

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ditions [Dubno et al., 2003, Drullman, 1995]. Temporal processing deficits

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ample, compensating for shifts in hearing thresholds or ANF loss, addition of noise, etc., should be applied in aging studies of auditory processing. We believe that this may aid in teasing apart the central and the peripheral effects in age-related changes of auditory temporal processing. Our findings in SAM depth processing (Fig. 4) and modulation frequency

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processing at 25 % modulation depth (Fig. 5b) showed minimal EFR am-

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population-level synchrony in midbrain declines with depth similarly across

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age. For SAM frequency processing, aged animals had higher EFR ampli-

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amplitude at AMFs of 16-90 Hz (Fig. 5a) as well as an overall main effect

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of age across the tMTF. This is consistent with our previous finding which

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sound-evoked magnetic fields (the middle-latency P1m wave and the long-

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latency N1m) in older normal-hearing human subjects, suggesting age-related

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changes during healthy aging due to experience-related neuroplasticity [Soros

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attain comparable peripheral or central neural activation for auditory evoked potential recordings. This study aimed to provide a measurable basis for sound-level comparisons of auditory temporal processing, which can be ap-

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berti, 1992, Race et al., 2017]. Tone 8 kHz ABR wave I amplitude was used

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(NIDCD R01DC011580). The authors would like to thank Dr. Aravindak-

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