Waves on Reissner's Membrane: A Mechanism for the Propagation of Otoacoustic Emissions from the Cochlea

Cell Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 374-384

  Reichenbach, Tobias ^a   Stefanovic, Aleksandra ^a   Nin, Fumiaki ^a   Hudspeth, A J ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUDITORY TUBE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; COCHLEA DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL GUINEA PIG; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GERBIL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; REISSNER MEMBRANE; SCALA TYMPANI; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SURFACE TENSION; VESTIBULAR EVOKED POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH;

ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; GERBILLINAE; GUINEA PIGS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; SOUND;

CAVIA; GERBILLINAE;

EID: 84861163424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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