Millions of years ago marine animals had hearing organs that allowed them to detect sounds in the water. When land dwelling animals evolved they now had to detect environmental sounds that traveled ...

James O Pickles, An Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing, Academic Press, 3rd edition, 2008. This single authored book provides an excellent overview of hearing mechanisms from the external ear ...

Sitting in traffic can expose a driver to intense irritation, as well as a range of sound frequencies. Humming engines ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The inner ear is a marvel of evolution, but scientists are still puzzled over certain aspects of its operation. Two related studies detail how ...