The Critical Thing about the Ear's Sensory Hair Cells.
Hudspeth AJ, Martin P.
Hudspeth AJ, et al.
J Neurosci. 2024 Oct 30;44(44):e1583242024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1583-24.2024.
J Neurosci. 2024.
PMID: 39477536
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Each cochlea, the auditory organ of the inner ear, contains some 16,000 such cells that are frequency-tuned between 20 Hz (cycles per second) and 20,000 Hz. Remarkably enough, hair cells do not simply capture sound energy: they can also exhibit an active process whereby s …
Each cochlea, the auditory organ of the inner ear, contains some 16,000 such cells that are frequency-tuned between 20 Hz (cycles per secon …