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The study of specific responses that take place in the ear or in the associated central (neural) auditory pathways. The ear is the receptor organ of...


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Figure 1.Schematic outline of the central auditory pathways. Numbers indicate the number of neurons from the cochlea. (After S. S. Stevens, ed., Handbook of Experimental Physiology, John Wiley and Sons, 1951)
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Figure 2.Distribution of frequency maxima along the basilar membrane. Numbers give frequencies in hertz. Length of basilar membrane = 32 mm, width = 0.04 mm at base, 0.50 mm at apex. (After O. Stuhlmann, An Introduction to Biophysics, John Wiley and Sons, 1943)
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Figure 3.Isoamplitude curves of the dc receptor potential within one guinea pig inner hair cell of the basal region. Q10 is a measure of the width of each curve, equal to the center frequency divided by the bandwidth at 10 dB above threshold. (After I. J. Russell and P. M. Sellnick, Tuning properties of cochlear hair cells, Nature, 267:858–860, 1977)
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