The Peripheral Auditory System
HST.721 · Health Sciences and Technology · Graduate · Fall 2005
Prof. Charlie Liberman, Prof. Joe C. Adams
In this course, experimental approaches to the study of hearing and deafness are presented through lectures, laboratory exercises and discussions of the primary literature on the auditory periphery. Topics include inner-ear development, functional anatomy of the inner ear, cochlear mechanics and micromechanics, mechano-electric transduction by hair cells, outer hair cells’ electromotility and the cochlear amplifier, otoacoustic emissions, synaptic transmission, stimulus coding in auditory nerve…
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