ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2015
The spiral staircase: tonotopic microstructure and cochlear tuning.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Emilin 2 promotes the mechanical gradient of the cochlear basilar membrane and resolution of frequencies in sound.Science advances · 2020Article
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- Mammalian behavior and physiology converge to confirm sharper cochlear tuning in humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Understanding Molecular Evolution and Development of the Organ of Corti Can Provide Clues for Hearing Restoration.Integrative and comparative biology · 2018Article
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- The Coda of the Transient Response in a Sensitive Cochlea: A Computational Modeling Study.PLoS computational biology · 2016Article
- Iterated intracochlear reflection shapes the envelopes of basilar-membrane click responses.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2015Article
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Abstract
Although usually assumed to be smooth and continuous, mammalian cochlear frequency-position maps are predicted to manifest a staircase-like structure comprising plateaus of nearly constant characteristic frequency separated by abrupt discontinuities. The height and width of the stair steps are determined by parameters of cochlear frequency tuning and vary with location in the cochlea. The step height is approximately equal to the bandwidth of the auditory filter (critical band), and the step width matches that of the spatial excitation pattern produced by a low-level pure tone. Stepwise tonotopy is an emergent property arising from wave reflection and interference within the cochlea, the same mechanisms responsible for the microstructure of the hearing threshold. Possible relationships between the microstructure of the cochlear map and the tiered tonotopy observed in the inferior colliculus are explored.
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