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 ...

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 ...

See COCHLEA for diagram. Incoming vibrations set up a travelling wave along the membrane ... The bulging of the basilar membrane as a function of frequency (from F. Winckel, Music,Sound and Sensation, ...

The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD ...