The last decade revealed to auditory researchers that hair cells can not only detect and process mechanical energy, but are also able to produce it. Thanks to the active hair cell, ears can produce otoacoustic emissions. This book gives the newest insights into the biophysics and physiology of individual hair cells and integral hair cell systems such as the inner ear and the lateral line organ.
Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions in a Bird (G A Manley); Otoacoustic Emissions from a Nonlinear, Active Model of Cochlear Mechanics (S T Neely); The Mechanotransduction Channels in Cochlear Hair Cells may be Revealed by Antibodies which Recognize Other Amiloride-Sensitive Channels (C M Hackney); Mechanical Analysis of a Model of the Hair Bundle (J O Pickles); Auditory Transduction and Its Modulation in Mammalian Cochlear Partition (J F Ashmore); A Molecular Motor Mediating Adaptation in Bullfrog Hair Cells (D P Corey); Level Dependence of the Cellular Response in the Guinea Pig Cochlea (S M Khanna); Some Like It Active (E de Boer); Distortion Product Emissions as a Probe of Cochlear Mechanical Resonance (J B Allen); The Low Frequency Microphonic as an Indirect Measure of Mechanical Changes in the Organ of Corti (R Patuzzi); Time-Domain Modelling of a Nonlinear, Active Model of the Cochlea (C D Geisler); Alteration of Basilar Membrane Responses to Sound by Acoustic Overstimulation (M A Ruggero); A Nonlinear Travelling-Wave Amplifier Model of the Cochlea (A Hubbard). (Part contents.)