Sound source localization (SSL) in a robotic platform has been essential in the overall
scheme of robot audition. It allows a robot to locate a sound source by sound alone. It has an …

Much is known about the mechanotransducer (MT) channels mediating transduction in hair
cells of the vertrbrate inner ear. With the use of isolated preparations, it is experimentally …

Sensory transduction in auditory and vestibular hair cells requires expression of
transmembrane channel-like (Tmc) 1 and 2 genes, but the function of these genes is …

Inner ear hair cells convert the mechanical stimuli of sound, gravity, and head movement
into electrical signals. This mechanotransduction process is initiated by opening of cation …

Sound-induced mechanical stimuli are detected by elaborate mechanosensory transduction
(MT) machinery in highly specialized hair cells of the inner ear. Genetic studies of inherited …

Mechanosensitive cilia are vital to signaling and development across many species. In
sensory hair cells, sound and movement are transduced by apical hair bundles. Each …

Hearing and balance use hair cells in the inner ear to transform mechanical stimuli into
electrical signals. Mechanical force from sound waves or head movements is conveyed to …

Sound detection by inner ear hair cells requires tip links that interconnect mechanosensory
stereocilia and convey force to yet unidentified transduction channels. Current models …

Immunocytochemical studies have shown that protocadherin-15 (PCDH15) and cadherin-23
(CDH23) are associated with tip links, structures thought to gate the mechanotransducer …

The 10 different genes associated with the deaf/blind disorder, Usher syndrome, encode a
number of structurally and functionally distinct proteins, most expressed as multiple …