Uniquely among human senses, hearing is not simply a passive response to stimulation.
Our auditory system is instead enhanced by an active process in cochlear hair cells that …

The evolution of hearing in terrestrial animals has resulted in remarkable adaptations
enabling exquisitely sensitive sound detection by the ear and sophisticated sound analysis …

Hearing starts when sound-evoked mechanical vibrations of the hair-cell bundle activate
mechanosensitive ion channels, giving birth to an electrical signal. As for any mechanical …

The hair bundle is the universal mechanosensory organelle of auditory, vestibular, and
lateral-line systems. A bundle comprises mechanically coupled stereocilia, whose …

Hearing relies on the conversion of mechanical stimuli into electrical signals. In vertebrates,
this process of mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) is performed by specialized receptors …

The cochlea decomposes incoming sound waveforms into different frequency components
along the length of its basilar membrane. The receptor hair cells at the apical end of this …

Flavor and fragrance materials have an impact on human beings and animals, which thus
places sensory science in an important position. A wide range of sensory analyses is used …

Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) elicited by steady-state amplitude-
modulated (AM) tones yield different information than conventional cVEMPs elicited by …

By bending and wiggling just 10 stubby fingers, humans have learned to trace out intricate
works of art, write an endless variety of stories, and evoke symphonic opuses from a piano …

Depuis la fin des années 70, l'implant cochléaire a progressivement pris sa place dans les
moyens classiques de réhabilitation des surdités profondes neurosensorielles. C'est ainsi …