For most people, their ears are able to process these wide-ranging sounds and make sense of them. However, scientists don't have a full sense of why this happens because they are still working to ...

Figure 2 shows the path that sound waves follow from the sound source where they are generated to the inner ear. The middle ear consists of the ear drum, the middle ear bones, and the membrane over ...

However, the inner ear remained largely unexplored ... discovering scant literature addressing the intricacies of the cochlea ...

The outer hair cells are located near the center of the basilar membrane where vibrations will be greatest ... in the late 70s it was discovered that sound is produced by the inner ear. These sounds ...

2012;8(2):107-109. Of special concern when considering hearing in aging is the loss of hair cells located on the basilar membrane in the cochlea in the inner ear: some 12,000–15,000 outer hair ...