Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Reverse transduction measured in the living cochlea by low-coherence heterodyne interferometry

  • Tianying Ren,
  • Wenxuan He,
  • Peter G. Barr-Gillespie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10282
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Mammalian hearing is remarkable for its sensitivity and frequency selectivity. Here, the authors show that outer hair cell-generated force, which amplifies sound-induced vibrations inside the cochlea, is responsible for these traits.