A hearing sensation arises when the elastic basilar membrane inside the cochlea vibrates. The basilar membrane is typically set into motion through airborne sound that displaces the middle ear and ...

While our brains provide us with a tremendous amount of information about the sounds we hear and what they mean to us, at the most basic level, our auditory system answers two major questions about ...

It is commonly believed that the exceptional sensitivity of mammalian hearing depends on outer hair cells which generate forces for amplifying sound-induced basilar membrane vibrations, yet how ...