Nowadays OAE have a special role in electrophysiological examinations and also remarkable application in infants&apos hearing screening test. In the current article we have focused attention on the physiological fundamentals of OAE and tried to explain the trends in physiological studies that finally led to discovering the acoustic radiations by "David Kemp". By studying this article we can conclude that inner ear cannot be pondered just as a transformer that change the movements of the inner ear&aposs fluid to the neural signal, rather it should be considered as an active organ that can produce energy and also control the other active mechanisms involved in hearing.

Recent studies have demonstrated that outer hair cells play two functional roles in the ear: one is the sensory function and the other is motor one. The function of OHCs in being trigered with very poor signals can not be overlooked. This mechanism would lead in improving the sensitivity of the ear. As stimulus intensity increases, little by little, OHC will reach its saturation level and finally the amplification effect decreases.Otoacoustic emissions could be reverberations produced by the responses of outer hair cells .Any decrease in the number of OHCs can cause a mechanical split in the fine tuning mechanism of the organ of corti and result in hearing loss.