CSI Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility - hearing models http://csi.whoi.edu/taxonomy/term/781/0 en The effects of mechanical property manipulation on Minke Whale hearing sensitivity http://csi.whoi.edu/biblio/effects-mechanical-property-manipulation-minke-whale-hearing-sensitivity <a href="http://csi.whoi.edu/biblio/effects-mechanical-property-manipulation-minke-whale-hearing-sensitivity" class="sharethis-link" title="The effects of mechanical property manipulation on Minke Whale hearing sensitivity" rel="nofollow">ShareThis</a>[1432] <span class="biblio-authors"><a href="/biblio/author/312">Tubelli, A. A.</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/68">A. L. Zosuls</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/4">D. R. Ketten</a>, and <a href="/biblio/author/215">D. C. Mountain</a>, </span> <span class="biblio-title">&quot;<a href="/biblio/effects-mechanical-property-manipulation-minke-whale-hearing-sensitivity">The effects of mechanical property manipulation on Minke Whale hearing sensitivity</a>&quot;, </span> <i>19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals</i>, Abstracts, vol. Abstracts, issue Abstracts, Tampa, FL, Society for Marine Mammology, pp. 296-297, 11, 2011. <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rft.title=The+effects+of+mechanical+property+manipulation+on+Minke+Whale+hearing+sensitivity&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.volume=Abstracts&amp;rft.issue=Abstracts&amp;rft.spage=296&amp;rft.epage=297&amp;rft.aulast=Tubelli&amp;rft.aufirst=Andrew&amp;rft.pub=Society+for+Marine+Mammology&amp;rft.place=Tampa%2C+FL"></span><div class="field field-pdf"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Get PDF:&nbsp;</div> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://csi.whoi.edu/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="http://csi.whoi.edu/sites/default/files/literature/4496_001%204.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=268648" title="4496_001 4.pdf">Abstract.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> </div> There is little knowledge about the biomechanics of hearing in mysticetes. Biophysical models of the middle ear can predict audiograms in part via the middle-ear transfer function. Previous work predicted that the frequency range of best sensitivity for the Minke Whale (<em>Balaenoptera acutorostrata</em>) is near the range of vocalizations for that species. A revised middle ear finite element model incorporates middle ear soft tissues as geometry, including the glove finger, the ear drum homologue familiar from terrestrial mammalian species. <p><a href="http://csi.whoi.edu/biblio/effects-mechanical-property-manipulation-minke-whale-hearing-sensitivity" target="_blank">read more</a></p> biomechanics hearing hearing models hearing sensitivity mechanical property manipulation middle ear minke whale mysticetes Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:49:37 +0000 csiadmin 1432 at http://csi.whoi.edu