Mechanics of Hearing

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InhaltsangabeSection I: External Ear and Middle Ear.- The human external and middle ear: Models and concepts.- Modeling reverse middle ear transmission of acoustic distortion signals.- Recent developments in modelling the eardrum and related structures using the finite-element method.- Section II: Cochlear Fluid Mechanics.- Basilar membrane properties and cochlear response.- On vibration of membranes in the mammalian cochlea.- Pseudo-resonance in the mammalian cochlea.- Simultaneous amplitude and phase match of cochlear model calculations and basilar membrane vibration data.- Advantages from describing cochlear mechanics in terms of energy flow.- Section III: Cochlear Emissions.- An integrated view of cochlear mechanical nonlinearities observable from the ear canal.- Modelling cochlear echoes: The influence of irregularities in frequency mapping on summed cochlear activity.- Critical behaviour of auditory oscillators near feedback phase transitions.- Two aspects of cochlear acoustic emissions: Response latency and minimum stimulus energy.- Section IV: Active Systems.- The cochlear amplifier.- Electromechanical processes in the cochlea.- A non-linear feedback model for outer-haircell stereocilia and its implications for the response of the auditory periphery.- Wave reflection in passive and active cochlea models.- Modelling an active, nonlinear cochlea.- Nonlinear and active modelling of cochlear mechanics: A precarious affair.- Section V: Nonlinear Micromechanics.- Experimental and topographic morphology in cochlear mechanics.- Results from a cochlear model utilizing longitudinal coupling.- An interpretation of the sharp tuning of the basilar membrane mechanical response.- Section VI: Special Topics.- Thermal and quantum noise in the inner ear.- A hair cell model of neural response.- Static point-load measurements of basilar membrane compliance.- Problems in aural sound conduction.

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