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Basilar Membrane

Known as: Membrane, Basilar, Basilar membrane of cochlea, Membranes, Basilar 
A basement membrane in the cochlea that supports the hair cells of the ORGAN OF CORTI, consisting keratin-like fibrils. It stretches from the SPIRAL… Expand
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Cochlear structure

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Review
2007
Review
2007
Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development
Musical structure is complex, consisting of a small set of elements that combine to form hierarchical levels of pitch and… Expand
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Efferent-mediated control of basilar membrane motion.
Medial olivocochlear efferent (MOCE) neurones innervate the outer hair cells (OHCs) of the mammalian cochlea, and convey signals… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Longitudinal pattern of basilar membrane vibration in the sensitive cochlea
  • Tianying Ren
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 2002
    • Corpus ID: 9054013
In the normal mammalian ear, sound vibrates the eardrum, causing the tiny bones of the middle ear to vibrate, transferring the… Expand
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Review
2001
Review
2001
Mechanics of the mammalian cochlea.
In mammals, environmental sounds stimulate the auditory receptor, the cochlea, via vibrations of the stapes, the innermost of the… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Stable propagation of synchronous spiking in cortical neural networks
The classical view of neural coding has emphasized the importance of information carried by the rate at which neurons discharge… Expand
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Two-tone suppression in the basilar membrane of the cochlea: mechanical basis of auditory-nerve rate suppression.
1. The vibratory response to two-tone stimuli was measured in the basilar membrane of the chinchilla cochlea by means of the M… Expand
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Furosemide alters organ of corti mechanics: evidence for feedback of outer hair cells upon the basilar membrane
A widely held hypothesis of mammalian cochlear function is that the mechanical responses to sound of the basilar membrane depend… Expand
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Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Measurement of basilar membrane motion in the guinea pig using the Mössbauer technique.
Basilar membrane motion was measured at the 16-19 kHz place of the guinea pig cochlea using the Mössbauer technique. The… Expand
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
A 40-Hz auditory potential recorded from the human scalp.
Computer techniques readily extract from the brainwaves an orderly sequence of brain potentials locked in time to sound stimuli… Expand
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Observations of the vibration of the basilar membrane in squirrel monkeys using the Mössbauer technique.
  • William S. Rhode
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • 1971
    • Corpus ID: 38210959
The amplitude and the phase of vibration of the basilar membrane and the bony limbus of the cochlea were measured in living… Expand
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