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Physiology of the Ear

HST.720 · Health Sciences and Technology · Graduate · Fall 2004

Prof. Christopher Shera, Prof. John Guinan, Prof. John Rosowski

MIT · Tier 1

Topics for this course are based primarily on reading and discussions of original research literature that cover the analysis as well as the underlying physical and physiological mechanisms of acoustic signals in the auditory periphery. Topics include the acoustics, mechanics, and hydrodynamics of sound transmission; the biophysical basis for cochlear amplification; the physiology of hair-cell transduction and synaptic transmission; efferent feedback control; the analysis and coding of simple a…

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Prof. Christopher Shera, Prof. John Guinan, Prof. John Rosowski. HST.720 Physiology of the Ear. Fall 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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