In mammals, environmental sounds stimulate the auditory receptor, the cochlea, via
vibrations of the stapes, the innermost of the middle ear ossicles. These vibrations produce …

Olivocochlear efferent neurons originate in the brain stem and terminate in the organ of
Corti, thereby allowing the central nervous system to influence the operation of the cochlea …

Now available in a sixth edition, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing is the leading
textbook in the field of auditory perception, also known as psychoacoustics. The textbooks …

We claim that speech analysis algorithms should be based on computational models of
human audition, starting at the ears. While much is known about how hearing works, little of …

A widely held hypothesis of mammalian cochlear function is that the mechanical responses
to sound of the basilar membrane depend on transduction by the outer hair cells. We have …

This composite article is intended to give the experts in the field of cochlear mechanics an
opportunity to voice their personal opinion on the one mechanism they believe dominates …

Most sounds of interest consist of complex, time-dependent admixtures of tones of diverse
frequencies and variable amplitudes. To detect and process these signals, the ear employs …

Abstract α-tectorin is an extracellular matrix molecule of the inner ear. Mice homozygous for
a targeted deletion in α-tectorin have tectorial membranes that are detached from the …

We confirm the report of Mountain (Mountain DC (1980): Science 210, 71–72) that
stimulating the crossed olivocochlear bundle (COCB) can change the magnitude of the …

A general account of auditory perceptual organization has developed in the past 2 decades.
It relies on primitive devices akin to the Gestalt principles of organization to assign sensory …