Longitudinal spread of mechanical excitation through tectorial membrane traveling waves

The mammalian inner ear separates sounds by their frequency content, and this separation underlies important properties of human hearing, including our ability to understand speech in noisy environments. Studies of genetic disorders of hearing have demonstrated a link between frequency selectivity a...

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Main Authors: Farrahi, Shirin, Ghaffari, Roozbeh, Freeman, Dennis M., Sellon, Jonathan Blake
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102391
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