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 ...
The mammalian cochlea is an extraordinary biomechanical system whose capacity for sensitivity and frequency discrimination hinges on intricate interactions between its passive structures and active ...
Hearing depends on the transformation of sound-induced basilar membrane vibration into deflection of stereocilia 1 on the sensory hair cells, but the nature of these mechanical transformations is ...