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To test whether MOC inhibition is primarily at the frequency that elicits the MOC activity, acoustically elicited MOC effects were quantified in humans by the change in otoacoustic emissions produced by 60-dB SPL tone and half-octave-band noise elicitors at different frequencies relative to a 40-dB SPL, 1-kHz probe tone. On average, all elicitors produced MOC effects that were skewed (elicitor frequencies -1 octave below the probe produced larger effects than those -1 octave above). The largest MOC effects were from elicitors below the probe frequency for contra- and bilateral elicitors but were from elicitors centered at the probe frequency for ipsilateral elicitors. Typically, ipsilateral elicitors produced larger effects than contralateral elicitors and bilateral elicitors produced effects near the ipsi+contra sum. Elicitors at levels down to 30-dB SPL produced similar patterns. Tuning curves (TCs) interpolated from these data were V-shaped with Q10s \u223c2. 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