Title | Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a conference held at Boston University, Boston, MA, August 13-16, 1985 / edited by J. B. Allen, J. L. Hall, A. E. Hubbard, S. T. Neely, A. Tubis |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1986 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50038-1 |
Descript | VII, 402 p. online resource |
Outer and Middle Ear Mechanics -- The effectiveness of external and middle ears in coupling acoustic power into the cochlea -- Spatial distribution of sound pressure in the ear canal -- The impulse response vibration of the human ear drum -- Formulation and analysis of a dynamic fiber composite continuum model of the tympanic membrane -- How do contractions of the stapedius muscle alter the acoustic properties of the ear? -- Measurement of eardrum acoustic impedance -- Middle ear research using a SQUID magnetometer. I. Micro- and macromechanical selection of polymer materials for artificial tympanic membranes -- Middle ear research using a SQUID magnetometer. II. Transfer characteristics of human middle ears -- Cochlear Macromechanics -- Cochlear macromechanics โ a review -- Transients and speech processing in a three-dimensional model of the human cochlea -- The mechanics of the basilar membrane and middle ear in the pigeon -- On the mechanics of the horseshoe bat cochlea -- Resonance and reflection in the cochlea: the case of the CF-FM bat, Rhinolophus Ferrumequinum -- The complete solution of the basilar membrane condition in two dimensional models of the cochlea -- Longitudinal stiffness coupling in a 1-dimensional model of the peripheral ear -- Mรถssbauer measurements of the mechanical response to single-tone and two-tone stimuli at the base of the chinchilla cochlea -- Parameter sensitivity in a mathematical model of basilar membrane mechanics -- Cochlear Micromechanics -- Micromechanics of the cochlear partition -- On the role of fluid inertia and viscosity in stereociliary tuft motion: analysis of isolated bodies of regular geometry -- Role of passive mechanical properties of outer hair cells in determination of cochlear mechanics -- Thresholds of auditory sensitivity and auditory fatigue: relation with cochlear mechanics -- Analysis of streaming flow induced in the tectorial gap -- Active Filtering in the Cochlea -- Active filtering by hair cells -- Determination of the cochlear power flux from basilar membrane vibration data -- An isolated sound emitter in the cochlea: notes on modelling -- Stability of active cochlear models: need for a second tuned structure? -- Changes in spontaneous and evoked otoacoustic emissions and corresponding psychoacoustic threshold microstructures induced by aspirin consumption -- Statistical properties of a strong spontaneous oto-acoustic emission -- The influence of temperature on frequency-tuning mechanisms -- Nonlinear and/or Active Processes -- An overview of nonlinear and active cochlear models -- Evaluating traveling wave characteristics in man by an active nonlinear cochlea preprocessing model -- Modeling intracochlear and ear canal distortion product (2f1-f2) -- Interactions among multiple spontaneous otoacoustic emissions -- Basilar membrane motion in guinea pig cochlea exhibits frequency-dependent DC offset -- Linear and nonlinear effects in a physical model of the cochlea -- Modelling the cochlear partition with coupled Van der Pol oscillators -- New effects of cochlear nonlinearity in temporal patterns of auditory nerve fiber responses to harmonic complexes -- Wideband analysis of otoacoustic intermodulation -- Characterization of cubic intermodulation distortion products in the cat external auditory meatus -- Acoustic overstimulation reduces 2f1-f2 cochlear emissions at all levels in the cat -- Harmonic acoustic emissions in the earcanal generated by single tones: experiments and a model -- Steady-state response determination for models of the basilar membrane -- Transduction in the Cochlea -- Transduction in cochlear hair cells -- Furosemide affects ear-canal emissions produced by the injection of AC currents into scala media -- Outer hair cell motility: a possible electro-kinetic mechanism -- Visualization of sensory hair cells in an in vivo preparation -- A model for transduction in hair cells involving strain-activated conductance -- Author index -- Permuted title index