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Soft Tissue Conduction: Review, Mechanisms, and Implications.
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- A Novel Water Method for Reducing Air Conduction in Soft Tissue Conduction.Audiology research · 2026Article
- African Mole-Rats May Have High Bone Conduction Sensitivity to Counterbalance Low Air Conduction Sensitivity.Audiology research · 2025Review
- Acoustic modulation of mechanosensitive genes and adipocyte differentiation.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Novel cVEMP procedure reveals sexual dimorphism in peak to trough latency.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Article
- Soft Tissue Conduction Activates the Auditory Pathway in the Brain.Audiology research · 2024Article
- The continued importance of comparative auditory research to modern scientific discovery.Hearing research · 2023Review
- Ankle Audiometry: A Clinical Test for the Enhanced Hearing Sensitivity for Body Sounds in Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2023Article
- A bone-conducted Tullio phenomenon-A bridge to understand skull vibration induced nystagmus in superior canal dehiscence.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- How Is the Cochlea Activated in Response to Soft Tissue Auditory Stimulation in the Occluded Ear?Audiology research · 2021Review
- Occlusion Effect in Response to Stimulation by Soft Tissue Conduction-Implications.Audiology research · 2020Article
- Hearing at threshold intensities: by slow mechanical traveling waves or by fast cochlear fluid pressure waves.Audiology research · 2020Article
- Audiogram in Response to Stimulation Delivered to Fluid Applied to the External Meatus.Journal of audiology & otology · 2020Article
- Implications for Bone Conduction Mechanisms from Thresholds of Post Radical Mastoidectomy and Subtotal Petrosectomy Patients.The journal of international advanced otology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Soft tissue conduction (STC) is a recently explored mode of auditory stimulation, complementing air (AC) and bone (BC) conduction stimulation. STC can be defined as the hearing induced when vibratory stimuli reach skin and soft tissue sites not directly overlying skull bone such as the head, neck, thorax, and body. Examples of STC include the delivery of vibrations to the skin of parts of the body by a clinical bone vibrator, hearing underwater sounds and free field air sounds, while AC hearing is attenuated by earplugs. The vibrations induced in the soft tissues are apparently transmitted along soft tissues, reaching, and exciting the ear. Further research is required to determine whether the mechanism of the final stage of STC hearing involves the excitation of the ear by eliciting inner ear fluid pressures that activate the hair cells directly, by the induction of skull bone vibrations, or by a combination of both mechanisms, depending on the magnitude of each mechanism.
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