Mechanics of Hearing

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Section I: External Ear and Middle Ear.
• The human external and middle ear: Models and concepts..
• Modeling reverse middle ear transmission of acoustic distortion signals..
• Recent developments in modelling the eardrum and related structures using the finite-element method..
• Section II: Cochlear Fluid Mechanics.
• Basilar membrane properties and cochlear response..
• On vibration of membranes in the mammalian cochlea..
• Pseudo-resonance in the mammalian cochlea..
• Simultaneous amplitude and phase match of cochlear model calculations and basilar membrane vibration data..
• Advantages from describing cochlear mechanics in terms of energy flow..
• Section III: Cochlear Emissions.
• An integrated view of cochlear mechanical nonlinearities observable from the ear canal..
• Modelling cochlear echoes: The influence of irregularities in frequency mapping on summed cochlear activity..
• Critical behaviour of auditory oscillators near feedback phase transitions..
• Two aspects of cochlear acoustic emissions: Response latency and minimum stimulus energy..
• Section IV: Active Systems.
• The cochlear amplifier..
• Electromechanical processes in the cochlea..
• A non-linear feedback model for outer-haircell stereocilia and its implications for the response of the auditory periphery..
• Wave reflection in passive and active cochlea models..
• Modelling an active, nonlinear cochlea..
• Nonlinear and active modelling of cochlear mechanics: A precarious affair..
• Section V: Nonlinear Micromechanics.
• Experimental and topographic morphology in cochlear mechanics..
• Results from a cochlear model utilizing longitudinal coupling..
• An interpretation of the sharp tuning of the basilar membrane mechanical response..
• Section VI: Special Topics.
• Thermal and quantum noise in the inner ear..
• A hair cell model of neural response..
• Static point-load measurements of basilar membrane compliance..
• Problems in aural sound conduction..