Research Article Is All Human Hearing Cochlear?

License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the possibility that the saccule may contribute to human hearing. The forty participants included twenty healthy people and twenty other subjects selected from patients who presented with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo to Audiology Department of Hazrat Rasoul Akram hospital (Tehran, Iran). Assessments comprised of audiological evaluations, cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs), recognition of spoken phonemes in white noise (Rsp inwn), and auditory brainstem response to 500Hz tone burst (ABR 500HZ). Twenty affected ears with decreased vestibular excitability as detected by abnormal cVEMPs revealed decreased scores of Rsp in wn and abnormal findings of ABR 500HZ. Both unaffected and normal ears had normal results. Multiple comparisons of mean values of cVEMPs and ABR 500HZ between three groups were significant