TY - JOUR
T1 - Travelling waves and tonotopicity in the inner ear
T2 - a historical and comparative perspective
AU - Manley, Geoffrey A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - In the 1940s, Georg von Békésy discovered that in the inner ear of cadavers of various vertebrates, structures responded to sound with a displacement wave that travels in a basal-to-apical direction. This historical review examines this concept and sketches its rôle and significance in the development of the research field of cochlear mechanics. It also illustrates that this concept and that of tonotopicity necessarily correlate, in that travelling waves are consequences of the existence of an ordered, longitudinal array of receptor cells tuned to systematically changing frequencies along the auditory organ.
AB - In the 1940s, Georg von Békésy discovered that in the inner ear of cadavers of various vertebrates, structures responded to sound with a displacement wave that travels in a basal-to-apical direction. This historical review examines this concept and sketches its rôle and significance in the development of the research field of cochlear mechanics. It also illustrates that this concept and that of tonotopicity necessarily correlate, in that travelling waves are consequences of the existence of an ordered, longitudinal array of receptor cells tuned to systematically changing frequencies along the auditory organ.
KW - Békésy
KW - Cochlea
KW - Hearing
KW - Tonotopic
KW - Travelling wave
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85052642843
U2 - 10.1007/s00359-018-1279-8
DO - 10.1007/s00359-018-1279-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 30116889
AN - SCOPUS:85052642843
SN - 0340-7594
VL - 204
SP - 773
EP - 781
JO - Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
JF - Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
IS - 9-10
ER -