The ear / edited by Paul Fuchs. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - x, 450 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. - The Oxford handbook of auditory science ; v. 1 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The clinical cochlea / Lawrence R. Lustig -- External and middle ear function / John J. Rosowski -- Otoacoustic emissions and evoked potentials / David T. Kemp -- Cochlear mechanics, tuning, non-linearities / Egbert de Boer and Alfred L. Nuttall -- Electromotility of outer hair cells / Kuni Iwasa -- Inner ear fluid homeostasis / Daniel C. Marcus and Philine Wangemann -- Hair bundle structure and mechanotransduction / Carole M. Hackney and David Furness -- The afferent synapse / Jonathan Ashmore -- Efferent innervation and function / A. Belen Elgoyhen and Paul Fuchs -- Cochlear supporting cells / Jonathan Gale and Daniel Jagger -- Development of the inner ear / Lynne M. Bianchi and Paul Fuchs -- Regeneration in the cochlea / Douglas A. Cotanche -- Genetics of hearing loss / Cynthia Morton and Anne B. Giersch -- Hearing aids and cochlear implants / John K. Niparko and Andrea Marlowe.

9780199233397 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009032940


Ear--Physiology.
Hearing--Physiological aspects.
Deafness.
Ear--physiology.
Hearing--physiology.
Hearing Loss.

QP461 / .E27 2010

612.85 / EAR