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ArticleScientific reports2015

Mammalian cochlea as a physics guided evolution-optimized hearing sensor.

Tom Lorimer, Florian Gomez, Ruedi Stoop

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tom LorimerInstitute of Neuroinformatics and Institute of Computational Science, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Florian GomezInstitute of Neuroinformatics and Institute of Computational Science, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Ruedi StoopInstitute of Neuroinformatics and Institute of Computational Science, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
ETH Zurich · CHUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonlinear physics plays an essential role in hearing. We demonstrate on a mesoscopic description level that during the evolutionary perfection of the hearing sensor, nonlinear physics led to the unique design of the cochlea observed in mammals, and that this design requests as a consequence the perception of pitch. Our insight challenges the view that mostly genetics is responsible for the uniformity of the construction of the mammalian hearing sensor. Our analysis also suggests that scaleable and non-scaleable arrangements of nonlinear sound detectors may be at the origin of the differences between hearing sensors in amniotic lineages.

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PMID26216397
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