In an effort to better understand how the inner ear can hear the quietest of noises, researchers from Yale University stumbled across a potential new way the human body actively manages sound waves ...

See COCHLEA for diagram. Incoming vibrations set up a travelling wave along the membrane ... generating electrical potentials that stimulate the auditory nerve. The bulging of the basilar membrane as ...

See COCHLEA for diagram. Incoming vibrations set up a travelling wave along the membrane ... generating electrical potentials that stimulate the auditory nerve. The bulging of the basilar membrane as ...

Its orderly rows of outer hair cells is unique among the organs of the body. Figure 5 shows a short section of the organ of Corti as it spirals in the cochlea. The organ of Corti is larger and the ...

they become surface waves that travel along the cochlea's hair-lined basilar membrane. "Each pure tone rings at one point along this spiral organ," said Asheesh Momi, a graduate student in physics ...

The process of determining what a sound is begins at a flat sheet of tissue (in the cochlea of the inner ear) called the basilar membrane. The basilar membrane detects the component frequencies ...

Its floor is formed by the osseous spiral lamina and the basilar membrane, which separate the cochlear duct from the scala tympani. Figure 1A. The ear has 3 parts. Conductive hearing loss usually ...

The outer hair cells are located near the center of the basilar membrane where vibrations will be greatest while the basilar membrane ... Their analysis was able to explain the frequency selectivity ...