The cochlea is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as an ...

This damage, known as cochlear synaptopathy, is usually permanent and can lead to delayed degeneration of the cochlear nerve. However, research in mice has shown that sound detection thresholds can ...

It consists of the outer ear (the auricle and auditory canal), the middle ear (the tympanic membrane, malleus, incus and stapes), the inner ear (consisting of the cochlea and vestibular organs ...

Age-related hearing loss usually occurs when the hair cells in your cochlea are damaged or die. Hair cells do not grow back, so this kind of hearing loss is usually permanent. Changes in the ...

Adjusting to hearing through a cochlear implant requires training ... as part of the process. Human editors reviewed this content before publication.

[18] During ABR studies, a series of waves representing activity in the auditory pathway are recorded: wave I represents activity in the cochlear nerve; wave II, activity in the cochlear nerve ...

This little device is called a cochlear implant ... It doesn't travel as well as it does in gases and liquids but human speech and hearing are adapted for it. Humans speak by pushing air out ...

Hearing problems such as age-related hearing ... "This paper describes a novel surgical pathway to access the human cochlear nerve, opening up an important route to deliver new therapeutic agents ...