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All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru
(An Autonomous institute Under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.)

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Mechanics of hearing /

Mechanics of hearing / edited by E. de Boer, M.A. Viergever. - The Hague ; Boston : Delft : Martinus Nijhoff ; Delft University Press, 1983. - xii, 217 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"Held at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 13-15 July 1983."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Section I: External Ear and Middle Ear.- The human external and middle ear: Models and concepts..- Modeling reverse middle ear transmission of acoustic distortion signals..- Recent developments in modelling the eardrum and related structures using the finite-element method..- Section II: Cochlear Fluid Mechanics.- Basilar membrane properties and cochlear response..- On vibration of membranes in the mammalian cochlea..- Pseudo-resonance in the mammalian cochlea..- Simultaneous amplitude and phase match of cochlear model calculations and basilar membrane vibration data..- Advantages from describing cochlear mechanics in terms of energy flow..- Section III: Cochlear Emissions.- An integrated view of cochlear mechanical nonlinearities observable from the ear canal..- Modelling cochlear echoes: The influence of irregularities in frequency mapping on summed cochlear activity..- Critical behaviour of auditory oscillators near feedback phase transitions..- Two aspects of cochlear acoustic emissions: Response latency and minimum stimulus energy..- Section IV: Active Systems.- The cochlear amplifier..- Electromechanical processes in the cochlea..- A non-linear feedback model for outer-haircell stereocilia and its implications for the response of the auditory periphery..- Wave reflection in passive and active cochlea models..- Modelling an active, nonlinear cochlea..- Nonlinear and active modelling of cochlear mechanics: A precarious affair..- Section V: Nonlinear Micromechanics.- Experimental and topographic morphology in cochlear mechanics..- Results from a cochlear model utilizing longitudinal coupling..- An interpretation of the sharp tuning of the basilar membrane mechanical response..- Section VI: Special Topics.- Thermal and quantum noise in the inner ear..- A hair cell model of neural response..- Static point-load measurements of basilar membrane compliance..- Problems in aural sound conduction..

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Hearing--Physiological aspects--Congresses.
Human mechanics--Congresses.

QP460 / .M4 1983

612.85 DEB V