Interaction of acoustic and vestibular afferent activity observed in ear muscles

@article{Meyer2004InteractionOA,
  title={Interaction of acoustic and vestibular afferent activity observed in ear muscles},
  author={Dietrich L. Meyer and K. P. Schaefer and A. Winkelmann},
  journal={Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Neurologie},
  year={2004},
  volume={200},
  pages={213-218},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:12257156}
}
Findings indicate an interaction of acoustic and vestibular afferent inputs in the brain stem and single motor units of rabbits' external ear muscles to acoustic stimulation.
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