The Peripheral Auditory System

Anatomical drawing of the human ear.

Normal ear anatomy. (Illustration courtesy of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

HST.721

As Taught In

Fall 2005

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Description

In this course, experimental approaches to the study of hearing and deafness are presented through lectures, laboratory exercises and discussions of the primary literature on the auditory periphery. Topics include inner-ear development, functional anatomy of the inner ear, cochlear mechanics and micromechanics, mechano-electric transduction by hair cells, outer hair cells' electromotility and the cochlear amplifier, otoacoustic emissions, synaptic transmission, stimulus coding in auditory nerve responses, efferent control of cochlear function, damage and repair of hair-cell organs, and sensorineural hearing loss.

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Charlie Liberman, and Joe Adams. HST.721 The Peripheral Auditory System. Fall 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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