Subject: Re: AW: the seven wonders of hearing From: "Richard F. Lyon" <DickLyon@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:11:53 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>At 3:41 PM +0000 10/21/07, reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx wrote: >Finally I can give a fairly short answer: Of your seven >wonders, I strongly prefer Nr. 7, active TW -- but only >if the active part of the TW is restricted to a short >x_b-region (typically 0.4 mm in gerbils, and not 4 mm >as I wrote 45 minutes ago!) on the basal slope of the >active peak. All such models that I'm aware of show a significant active effect only within about a half-octave range, consistent with experimental data. No specific restriction is needed to get this behavior. Dick