Subject: Re: HC selectivity ... was Re: Physiological models of cochlea activity - alternatives to the travelling wave From: "Richard F. Lyon" <DickLyon@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:35:15 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>At 10:01 AM +1000 10/4/07, Andrew Bell wrote: >Martin makes a telling point about the impossibly small magnitudes (1 pm) >associated with a hydrodynamic traveling wave The motion might be that small in a severely hearing-impaired cochlea, but in a normal cochlea it's probably about 60 dB bigger, or 1 nm. So I don't understand this strange straw-man. Dick