Engineers have created a silicon version of a key organ of hearing, using manufacturing techniques borrowed from the electronic chip industry. The device could serve as a prototype for mechanical ...

New Haven, Conn. — Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of “modes” within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, ...

Schematic of the model. Above, we unroll the spiral-shaped cochlea into a model of two fluid-filled chambers partitioned by the basilar membrane (BM). Pressure waves in the fluid are accompanied by BM ...

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 ...

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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 ...