[Evoked otoacoustic emissions from normal-hearing young Chinese].

Evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAE) were recorded in normal-hearing young Chinese. Incidences and thresholds of EOAE responses, interaural threshold differences and latencies were calculated. The results were compared with other reports in the literature. The average threshold of EOAEs evoked by 1 kHz bone-conducted tone-burst stimuli was found about 4.43 dB below the subjective thresholds for the stimuli. This result is quite different from that reported by Rossi in 1988. The cause of the result is yet not clear.