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Coding of sounds in lower levels of the auditory system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Aage R. Møller
Aage R. Møller
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Department of Physiology II, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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The great number of investigations and advanced developments in neurophysiology and psychoacoustics during recent years have extensively increased our knowledge about the frequency analysis of simple sounds in the peripheral auditory system.

New methods have facilitated quantitative measurements of the amplitude of the submicroscopic vibration of a narrow segment of the basilar membrane in anaesthetized animals at physiological sound intensities. The results of these studies have quantitatively confirmed the results of past studies by showing that the basilar membrane has a selectivity with regard to tone frequency. In addition to this, the recent studies have increased our knowledge about the finer details of vibration of the basilar membrane. At the lowest levels used in the recent investigations, i.e. about 70 dB SPL, the selectivity in the 7 kHz region of the basilar membrane was found to be greater than expected on the basis of extrapolation of older data. Moreover, the high frequency slope of the tuning curves of the basilar membrane was found to be particularly steep. The results of these recent studies, furthermore, showed that the basilar membrane vibrates in a non-linear way at intensities within the physiological range. This non-linearity results in a broadening of the selectivity curves of a narrow segment of the basilar membrane when the sound intensity is increased.

Little is known as to how the motion of the basilar membrane is transformed to excitation of the cochlear sensory cells, i.e. the haircells. The excitation may be related to displacement, spatial differentiation or other transformations of the basilar membrane motion. Recording from the interior of mammalian haircells has so far been unsuccessful, and the neural excitatory process within the haircells in the cochlea is as yet practically unknown. Studies of the haircells in the lateral line organ of fish have provided fundamental knowledge about their excitation; since they in many respects resemble those in the mammalian cochlea, the results very probably can be applied to the excitatory process in the mammalian cochlea.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1972 , pp. 59 - 155
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