The extraordinary sensitivity of the mammalian ear is commonly attributed to the cochlear amplifier, a cellular process thought to locally boost responses of the cochlear partition to soft sounds.
IN an earlier experiment 1, the tip of a needle was pressed against the cochlear partition of a lightly anæsthetized guinea pig, and the microphonics produced by the displacement of the cochlear ...
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