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Over the years there have been periodic discussions on this list about resonance and travelling waves in the cochlea. List members might therefore be interested in a wide-ranging paper on this topic just published
in PLOS ONE. My paper, “A Resonance Approach to Cochlear Mechanics”, can be accessed
at
http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047918 A supporting paper, “Reptile ears and mammalian ears: hearing without a travelling wave”, might also be of interest.
This paper was recently published in the Journal of Hearing Science and can be found at
http://www.journalofhearingscience.com/fulltxt.php?lang=EN&ICID=883509 Thankyou to list members for a range of stimulating comments. The aim of the above papers is to set out a consistent alternative theory of how the human
cochlea works, and I trust they clarify a number of issues that have been raised. Andrew. Dr Andrew Bell
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