Eggermont J J
Acta Otolaryngol Suppl. 1985;421:41-7. doi: 10.3109/00016488509121755.
Evoked potentials are used widely to quantify the state of maturation of the auditory nervous system both in humans and animals. In animals a comparison between the rate of maturation obtained with evoked potential recording and with single unit recording can be made. In addition comparison with results from behavioural studies is possible. The presently available material suggests qualitatively similar time courses for single unit, evoked potential and behavioural data in the cat. However, quantitatively there are quite sizeable differences. Applications in humans only allow comparison with behavioural data, the amount and reliability of which at the moment are small. On the basis of the animal results an optimistic view point may be taken but diversity between some large studies on maturation of the human auditory evoked potentials do not substantiate this at the moment.
诱发电位被广泛用于量化人类和动物听觉神经系统的成熟状态。在动物中，可以比较通过诱发电位记录和单神经元记录获得的成熟速率。此外，还可以与行为学研究的结果进行比较。目前可得的资料表明，猫的单神经元、诱发电位和行为学数据在定性上具有相似的时间进程。然而，在定量方面存在相当大的差异。在人类中的应用仅允许与行为学数据进行比较，而目前行为学数据的数量和可靠性都较低。基于动物实验结果可以持乐观态度，但目前关于人类听觉诱发电位成熟度的一些大型研究之间的差异并不支持这一点。
