Physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of 'modes' within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and ...
The vibration of these bones causes the fluid inside the cochlea to move, mimicking the sound waves in the air outside the ear. If you unrolled a mouse cochlea, it would be about 6 millimeters long, ...
Cerebrospinal Fluid Gusher: A complication during cochlear implantation where cerebrospinal fluid leaks from the inner ear, potentially ... systems in place to gain human feedback on the overall ...
But whether it's the sound of chickens or my beautiful voice, it all enters your ear through the cochlea, a shell-like structure in the inner ear. Inside the cochlea there are over 16,000 hairlike ...
There are two and a half turns in the human cochlea and if you were to unwind the cochlea it would stretch to nearly an inch in length. By winding itself in a spiral, the organ takes up less space.