The Auditory Periphery Biophysics and Physiology
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1973
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Peter Dallos
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 4 2 8 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 4 6 0 0 - 5
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Request a sales quoteThe Auditory Periphery: Biophysics and Physiology is an attempt to provide comprehensive and detailed information regarding biophysics and physiology in terms of the peripheral auditory system. Eight detailed chapters are presented in the book where the first and last serve as introduction and summary. The introductory chapter provides background on the anatomy and functional organization of the auditory system. The second chapter illustrates the most common experimental techniques. A whole chapter is dedicated to the discussion of the middle ear, while Chapters 4 and 5 discuss cochlear mechanisms and potentials. The topic most studied but less understood in the operation of the ear is also emphasized in the book, which is the production of distortion. The topic of feedback mechanisms and systems is also covered. This book aims to be of help to various specialists such as biophysicists, bioengineers, physiologists, otolaryngologists, and speech and hearing scientists.
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
I. Functional Organization of the Auditory System
II. Anatomy of the Auditory System
A. Gross Anatomy
B. Fine Anatomy
Chapter 2. Experimental Techniques
I. The Quantities to be Measured
A. Potentials to be Recorded
B. Motion Patterns
II. Measurement of Electrical Potentials
A. Electrodes
B. Measuring Instruments
III. Recording of Mechanical Motion
A. Optical Methods
B. Capacitive Probes
C. The Mössbauer Technique
IV. Impedance Measurement Techniques
A. Acoustic Impedance
B. Electrical Impedance
V. Measurement of Sound Pressure
A. Closed versus Open Systems
B. Calibration of Sound Pressure
C. Special Problems in Distortion Calibration
Chapter 3. The Middle Ear
I. The Concept of a Transfer Function
II. Toward the Derivation of the Middle Ear Transfer Function
A. The Problem of Linearity
B. The Ideal Transformer Ratio of the Middle Ear
C. The Middle Ear Transfer Function
III. Comparisons with Behavioral Sensitivity
Chapter 4. Cochlear Mechanics
I. Some Acoustics and Hydrodynamics
A. The Wave Equation and Its Solution
B. The Effect of Viscosity
C. Deep-Water versus Shallow-Water Waves
II. Analytical Treatment of Cochlear Dynamics
A. Derivation of the Wave Equation
B. Parameters of the Wave Equation
C. Solution of the Wave Equation
D. Comparison of Solutions with Experimental Data
E. Input Impedance
F. The Peterson-Bogert Treatment
III. The Properties of the Traveling Wave
A. Instantaneous Waveform, Spatial and Frequency Patterns
B. Energy Transfer in the Cochlea: Fluid or Membrane?
IV. Fine Motion Patterns in the Cochlea
A. Transformation of Motion from Basilar Membrane to Cilia
B. The Problem of Linearity
V. Laplace Transform and Circuit Models of Cochlear Dynamics
VI. Transient Response
Chapter 5. Cochlear Potentials
I. Classification of Potentials
II. Resting Potentials
A. Endocochlear Potential (EP)
B. Intracellular Negativity within the Organ of Corti
III. Stimulus-Related Potentials
A. Cochlear Microphonic (CM)
B. Summating Potential
IV. Electroanatomy of the Cochlea
V. Whole-Nerve Action Potential
VI. Experimental Manipulation of Cochlear Potentials
A. Anoxia
B. Intracochlear Pressure
C. Temperature
D. Chemical Environment
VII. Transducer Processes
A. The General Transducer Scheme: Sensory Receptors
B. The Role and Significance of Cochlear Potentials
Chapter 6. Nonlinear Distortion
I. Description of Nonlinear Systems
II. Distortion Components in Cochlear Potentials
A. Harmonics
B. Intermodulation Components
C. Origin of Distortion Components
D. The Interference Phenomenon
E. Summating Potentials
F. Intermodulation Components at (n+1)f1-nf2
III. Subharmonics and Fractional Harmonics
A. Even-Order Subharmonics
B. Fractional Subharmonics
Chapter 7. Feedback Mechanisms
I. Definition and General Properties of Feedback Systems
II. The Middle Ear Muscle Reflex
A. General Considerations
B. The Acoustic Reflex
III. The Efferent System
Chapter 8. Summary
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References
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1973
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 560
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124142848
- eBook ISBN: 9780323146005
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