Reverse engineering the cetacean ear to extract audiograms
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Title | Reverse engineering the cetacean ear to extract audiograms |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2012 |
Authors | Zosuls, A. L., S. O. Newburg, D. R. Ketten, and D. C. Mountain |
Editors | Popper, A. N., and A. Hawkins |
Series Title | The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology |
Volume | 730 |
Pagination | 61-63 |
Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media LLC |
City | New York |
ISBN Number | 978-1-4419-7310-8 |
Keywords | audiogram, cetacean ear, fem, finite element model, marine mammal hearing, middle ear, ossicle |
Abstract | The cochlear frequency-place map is believed to be an important determinant of the frequencies that a species can hear as well as the bandwidth of cochlear filters. Both features impact an animal's ability to detect biologically significant sounds in noise. The cochlear frequency-place map is created in part by a stiffness gradient in the basilar membrane (BM) in which stiff regions respond best to high frequencies and more compliant regions respond best to low frequencies. |
DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4419-7311-5 |