Otoacoustic emission
Emisión otoacústica
- Date
- 1978 · confidence high
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- David Kemp
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
David Kemp showed that the inner ear itself emits sounds, otoacoustic emissions, predicted thirty years earlier by astrophysicist Thomas Gold; they now underlie universal newborn hearing screening.
What it led to
- Universal newborn hearing screening
- Early diagnosis of childhood deafness
- Study of the cochlea's outer hair cells
- Clinical otoacoustic emission equipment