All acoustic information from the periphery is encoded in the timing and rates of spikes in the
population of spiral ganglion neurons projecting to the central auditory system …

In vertebrates, all acoustic information transmitted from the inner ear to the central auditory
system is relayed by primary auditory afferents (auditory‐nerve fibers; ANFs). These neurons …

Mammalian hearing depends on sound-evoked displacements of the stereocilia of inner hair
cells (IHCs), which cause the endogenous mechanoelectrical transducer channels to …

The cochlea maps tones with different frequencies to distinct anatomical locations. For
instance, a faint 5000-hertz tone produces brisk responses at a place approximately 8 …

Key points A popular conception of mammalian cochlear physiology is that tuned
mechanical vibration of the basilar membrane defines the frequency response of the …

To understand speech, the slowly varying outline, or envelope, of the acoustic stimulus is
used to distinguish words. A small amount of information about the envelope is sufficient for …

Traveling waves in the inner ear exhibit an amplitude peak that shifts with frequency. The
peaking is commonly believed to rely on motile processes that amplify the wave by inserting …

This paper presents the design and experimental results of a cochlea filter in analog very
large scale integration (VLSI) which highly resembles physiologically measured response of …

Stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) appear to be well suited for assessing
frequency selectivity because, at least on theoretical grounds, they originate over a restricted …

A ubiquitous feature of the auditory organ in amniotes is the longitudinal mapping of
neuronal characteristic frequencies (CFs), which increase exponentially with distance along …