ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2010
A critique of the critical cochlea: Hopf--a bifurcation--is better than none.
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- Neural control and innate self-tuning of the hair cell's active process.Biophysical journal · 2024Article
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- A bifurcation integrates information from many noisy ion channels and allows for milli-Kelvin thermal sensitivity in the snake pit organ.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- A parametric blueprint for optimum cochlear outer hair cell design.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- A minimal physics-based model for musical perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Complex dynamics of hair bundle of auditory nervous system (I): spontaneous oscillations and two cases of steady states.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2022Article
- Fast adaptation of cooperative channels engenders Hopf bifurcations in auditory hair cells.Biophysical journal · 2022Article
- The Elusive Cochlear Filter: Wave Origin of Cochlear Cross-Frequency Masking.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2021Article
- Universality in kinetic models of circadian rhythms inJournal of mathematical biology · 2021Article
- A flexible anatomical set of mechanical models for the organ of Corti.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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Abstract
The sense of hearing achieves its striking sensitivity, frequency selectivity, and dynamic range through an active process mediated by the inner ear's mechanoreceptive hair cells. Although the active process renders hearing highly nonlinear and produces a wealth of complex behaviors, these various characteristics may be understood as consequences of a simple phenomenon: the Hopf bifurcation. Any critical oscillator operating near this dynamic instability manifests the properties demonstrated for hearing: amplification with a specific form of compressive nonlinearity and frequency tuning whose sharpness depends on the degree of amplification. Critical oscillation also explains spontaneous otoacoustic emissions as well as the spectrum and level dependence of the ear's distortion products. Although this has not been realized, several valuable theories of cochlear function have achieved their success by incorporating critical oscillators.
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