Re: Physiological models of cochlea activity - alternatives to the travelling wave

[Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Matt and others,

If the available data on mammalian cochlea function are considered 
reasonably and nonselectively (!), there is no need for a mathematically 
formulated model. For all non-mammalian ears, where the principle of 
frequency selectivity by CF-tuned hair cells is already widely accepted, 
there was never a demand for mathematically formulated cochlear models.

The "gold rush" of recent decades for mathematically formulated models of 
mammalian cochlear function can perhaps best be compared with the gold rush 
of the alchemists in the Middle Ages.

Martin

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