Stochastic resonance in hair cell mechanoelectrical transduction

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Bennett, Matthew ^a   Wiesenfeld, Kurt ^a   Jaramillo, Fernan ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Cochlea; Hair bundle; Hearing; Transduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344281166     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477504001604     Document Type: Article

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