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Everything about Cochlea
Snail-shaped part of inner ear involved in hearing
The cochlea is the part of the inner ear involved in hearing. It is a spiral-shaped cavity in the bony labyrinth, in humans making 2.75 turns around its axis, the modiolus. A core component of the cochlea is the organ of Corti, the sensory organ of hearing, which is distributed along the partition separating the fluid chambers in the coiled tapered tube of the cochlea. The cochlea is housed in the petrosal bone, known in humans as the petrous part of the temporal bone. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CochleaA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A single-cell level comparison of human inner ear organoids with the human cochlea and vestibular organsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Cochlear Hearing LossThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Mechanics of the Mammalian CochleaCited 1,263 times
- Go sideways: Basilar membraneA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Inner earA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
Noun A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Mechanics of the Mammalian Cochlea
Synaptopathy in the noise-exposed and aging cochlea: Primary neural degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss
The active cochlea
Basilar-membrane responses to tones at the base of the chinchilla cochlea
Representation of cochlea within primary auditory cortex in the cat
SUPPRESSION OF AUDITORY NERVE ACTIVITY BY STIMULATION OF EFFERENT FIBERS TO COCHLEA
Dynamics of Noise-Induced Cellular Injury and Repair in the Mouse Cochlea
Primary Neural Degeneration in the Guinea Pig Cochlea After Reversible Noise-Induced Threshold Shift
🆕 Influential since 2022
A single-cell level comparison of human inner ear organoids with the human cochlea and vestibular organs
CrossMoDA 2021 challenge: Benchmark of cross-modality domain adaptation techniques for vestibular schwannoma and cochlea segmentation
Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the mouse cochlea: An atlas for targeted therapies
Early Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Accelerates Presbycusis Altering Aging Processes in the Cochlea
Neuromorphic acoustic sensing using an adaptive microelectromechanical cochlea with integrated feedback
📚 Books worth reading
Cochlear Hearing LossBrian C. J. Moore · 1998
Auditory Frequency SelectivityNATO Advanced Research Workshop on Auditory Frequency Selectivity (1986 Wolfson College), Brian C. J. Moore · 1986
Otoacoustic emissionsSumitrajit Dhar · 2010
The cochleaPeter Dallos, Arthur N. Popper · 1996
Compression for CliniciansTheodore H. Venema · 2006
The Primary Auditory Neurons of the Mammalian CochleaAlain Dabdoub, Bernd Fritzsch · 2015
Otoacoustic emissionsMartin S. Robinette, Theodore J. Glattke · 2001- 📕Function and Dysfunction of the Cochlea : From Mechanisms to Potential TherapiesGuy P. Richardson, Christine Petit · 2019
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