Diversity in Auditory Mechanics

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Part one Diversity in auditory mechanics
  • Middle-ear structural and functional dependence on animal size
  • Roles of intracranial air pressure in bird audition
  • A mechanical analysis of the novel ear of the parsitoid fly Ormia ochracea
  • Fluid flow profiles measured in the supraorbital lateral line canal of the ruff
  • Diversity in hearing-organ structure and the characteristics of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in lizards
  • Comparison of distortion product otoacoustic emissions in humans and kangaroo rats
  • Acoustic distortion-products as indicator of cochlear adaptations in Jamaican mormoopid bats
  • Evolutionary plasticity of cochlear design in echlocating bats
  • Suppression of external-ear impulse-response smearing by echo signal-processing in the big brown bat
  • Tympanic radiation: aural sound production in the bullfrog Rana catesbeiana
  • Extratympanic sound sensitivity of frog auditory fibers
  • Frequency selectivity of saccular afferents of the goldfish revealed by REVCOR analysis
  • The mechanics of the avian cochlea: rate-intensity functions of auditory-nerve fibres in the emu
  • Does stochastic resonance play a role in hearing?
  • Pigeon spontaneous and evoked activities: a renewal process?
  • Temperature dependence of various components in the frog inner ear
  • Spike rate models for auditory fibers
  • Wiener kernel analysis and the singular value decomposition
  • Studies of mechanoelectric transduction in concentric hair bundles of invertebrates
• Part two Descriptive models of middle and outer ear
  • The effect of the pars flaccida of the tympanic membrane on the ear's sensitivity to sound
  • Evoked otoacoustic emissions, a new tool for non-invasive analysis of middle-ear network in man
  • Direct measurement of the reverse transfer function of the guinea pig middle ear
  • Measurement of reverse transmission in the human middle ear: preliminary results
  • Malleus vibrations in the cat ear are three dimensional
• Part three Descriptive models of cochlear function
• From ear canal to VIIIth nerve or higher
  • OHCs shift the excitation pattern via BM tension
  • Mammalian cochlear responses to the acute application of the taurine analogue, β-alanine
  • The significance of the cochlear traveling wave for theories of frequency analysis and pitch
  • Signal processing models for the auditory periphery
  • Estimating scaling exponents in auditory-nerve spike trains using fractal models incorporating refractoriness
  • All-pole models of auditory filtering
  • Changes in phase-locking to complex stimuli produced by noise-induced hearing loss
• In terms of spontaneous and evoked cochlear emissions
  • Two components of acoustic distortion: differential effects of contralateral sound and aspirin
  • Usefulness of the nonlinear residual response method
  • Excitation pattern shifts: time-frequency evidence from click-evoked otoacoustic emissions
  • Effects of loop diuretics on suppression tuning of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions in rabbits
  • Changes in cochlear amplifier mechanics during development
  • The origin of otoacoustic emissions elicited by electrical stimulation of the cochlea
  • What can we learn from cochlear group delays?
  • Effects of signal duration on threshold microstructure in ears with spontaneous otoacoustic emissions
  • Suppression and synchronization of otoacoustic emissions using complex tones
  • Simultaneous measurement of DPOAEs and basilar membrane vibration by acoustic probe and LASER doppler velocimeter
• In terms of basilar membrane motion
  • On cochlear cross-correlation functions: connecting nonlinearity and ‘activity’
  • Mid-band sensitivity notches in apical cochlear mechanics
  • Two-tone “low side” suppression in responses of basal basilar membrane
  • Reissner's membrane and the reticular lamina response in the apical turn of the cochlea in a living guinea pig
  • Nonlinear mechanisms in the apical turn of the chinchilla cochlea
  • Wiener-kernel analysis of basilar-membrane responses to white noise
  • Cochlear mechanical nonlinearity reflected on BM velocity I-O function slope and its behavior at high sound levels
• In terms of intracochlear pressure
  • A new approach to cochlear mechanics and cubic distortion tones by intracochlear acoustic pressure measurements in the guinea pig
  • Can the travelling wave be challenged by direct intracochlear pressure measurement?
  • The design and purpose of an intracochlear pressure sensor
• In terms of receptor potentials
  • The cochlea is an automatic gain control system after all
• Effects of efferent input
  • The effect of efferent stimulation and acetylcholine perfusion on basilar membrane displacement in the basal turn of the guinea pig cochlea
  • Efferent inhibition as a function of efferent stimulation parameters and sound frequency: testing the OHC-shunt hypothesis
  • Does activity in the olivocochlear bundle affect development of the auditory periphery?
• Effects of electrical stimulation
  • Scala media voltage responses to sinusoidal current stimulation
  • Electrically evoked micromechanical movements from the apical turn of the gerbil cochlea
  • Electrically-evoked emission magnitude is an approximately linear function of current level near characteristic frequency and very nonlinear at low frequencies
• Part four Synthetic models of the organ of Corti
  • The inverse problem for waves in a two subpartition cochlear model suggests axial electromechanical coupling of outer hair cells
  • A new assumption for mechanical OHC-IHC interaction
  • Active nonlinear model for a damaged cochlea
  • A cochlear traveling-wave amplifier model with realistic scala media and haircell electrical properties
  • Power flow within the organ of Corti of a three-dimensional finite-element cochlear model
  • A generation of distortion products in a model of cochlear mechanics
  • Energy transfer amongst coupled oscillating modes in the nonlinear cochlea: the physical basis of the basilar membrane response to transients
  • An analysis of mechanical interaction between the outer hair cells and two adjacent cochlear membranes
  • Three-dimensional mechanical modeling of the cochlea
  • Modeling otoacoustic emission fine structure
  • Shape and stiffness changes of the organ of Corti from base to apex cannot predict characteristic frequency changes: are multiple modes the answer?
• Part five Descriptive models of cellular elements
  • The intrinsic limit for active cochlear mechanics
  • Mechanically induced shortening in isolated guinea pig outer hair cells
  • Reconsideration of the influence of extracellular voltages on IHC transmitter release
  • Efferent control of cochlear mechanics: outer hair cells
  • Response of the outer hair cell to prolonged hypo-osmotic perfusion
  • Mechanically and ATP-induced currents of mouse outer hair cells are additive and blocked by d-tubocurarine
  • Stereociliary ultrastructure in relation to mechanotransduction: tip links and the contact region
  • Outer hair cell stiffness and force and their modulation by agents known to affect hearing
  • Force generation and mechanical impedance of outer hair cells
  • The effect of static hair-bundle displacement on the mechanoelectric transduction in isolated cochlear hair cells
  • Multiple stiffness gradients in the cochlea?
  • Sodium currents in hair cells of the mouse utricle
  • The function of the cytoskeleton in determining the mechanical properties of epithelial cells within the organ of Corti
  • Mechanical models of the stereocilia bundle of the mammalian cochlear hair cell
• Part six Synthetic models of cellular elements
  • Outer hair cell electro-anatomy
  • Motor mechanisms of the outer hair cell from the cochlea
  • The receptor potential non-linearities generated by the mechanoelectrical transducer to two-tone stimulation
  • Harmonic distortion of cupular mechanics generated by the gating springs of lateral line hair cells
  • Is the outer hair cell wall viscoelastic?
  • An elastic composite model of the outer hair cell wall