In mammals, environmental sounds stimulate the auditory receptor, the cochlea, via
vibrations of the stapes, the innermost of the middle ear ossicles. These vibrations produce …

The senses of hearing and equilibrium depend on sensory receptors called hair cells which
can detect motions of atomic dimensions and respond more than 100,000 times a second …

Intracellular current administration evokes rapid, graded, and bidirectional mechanical
responses of isolated outer hair cells from the mammalian inner ear. The cells become …

Normal hearing depends on sound amplification within the mammalian cochlea. The
amplification, without which the auditory system is effectively deaf, can be traced to the …

Outer hair cell electromotility is a rapid, force generating, length change in response to
electrical stimulation. DC electrical pulses either elongate or shorten the cell and sinusoidal …

Abstract Models of the human auditory periphery range from very basic functional
descriptions of auditory filtering to detailed computational models of cochlear mechanics …

Cochlear hair cells respond with phenomenal speed and sensitivity to sound vibrations that
cause submicron deflections of their hair bundle. Outer hair cells are not only detectors, but …

It is a central tenet of cochlear neurobiology that mammalian ears rely on a local,
mechanical amplification process for their high sensitivity and sharp frequency selectivity …

▪ Abstract Mechanosensory hair cells of the vertebrate inner ear contribute to acoustic tuning
through feedback processes involving voltage-gated channels in the basolateral membrane …

This comprehensive introduction to the functions of the mammalian ear describes the major
steps by which sound is transformed into nerve impulses. The author leads the reader along …