Active control of ultrasonic hearing in frogs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 11014-11019

  Gridi Papp, Marcos ^a   Feng, Albert S ^b   Shen, Jun Xian ^c   Yu, Zu Lin ^c   Rosowski, John J ^d,e,f   Narins, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audition; Eardrum; Eustachian tube; Middle ear; Tuning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUDITORY TUBE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EARDRUM; FROG; HEARING; HYOID BONE; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE EAR; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWALLOWING; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; EAR, INNER; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; HEARING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RANIDAE; ULTRASONICS; VIBRATION;

ANURA; ARTHROPODA; ODORRANA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 49549089324     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802210105     Document Type: Article

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