The physics of hearing: Fluid mechanics and the active process of the inner ear

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Reichenbach, Tobias ^a,b   Hudspeth, A J ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

basilar membrane; cochlea; hair cell; traveling wave

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDOLYMPH; FLOW KINETICS; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; EAR, INNER; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; HUMANS; LABYRINTHINE FLUIDS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84904695876     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/77/7/076601     Document Type: Article

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