From Sound to Synapse: Physiology of the Mammalian Ear

From Sound to Synapse: Physiology of the Mammalian Ear
ISBN-10
0195100255
ISBN-13
9780195100259
Category
Medical
Pages
381
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
C. Daniel Geisler

Description

This readable, well-illustrated text describes the exquisite job that the mammalian ear does in transforming sound into nerve impulses. The reader is led along the same pathway followed by an acoustic signal - from the outer ear, through the middle ear, and into the inner ear where the miniscule vibrations of the sound waves are transformed into nerve impulses. At each stage, the basic mechanmisms are described qualitatively in terms of current theory and illustratedwith experimental data.

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