The process of determining what a sound is begins at a flat sheet of tissue (in the cochlea of the inner ear) called the basilar membrane. The basilar membrane detects the component frequencies ...

Once sound waves enter the cochlea, they become surface waves that travel along the cochlea's hair-lined basilar membrane. "Each pure tone rings at one point along this spiral organ," said Asheesh ...

For a given frequency, the critical band is the smallest band of frequencies around it which activate the same part of the basilar membrane. Whereas the differential threshold is the just noticeable ...

1B). Its roof is formed by the vestibular (Reissner's) membrane, which separates it from the scala vestibuli. Its floor is formed by the osseous spiral lamina and the basilar membrane, which ...

Aging Health. 2012;8(2):107-109. Of special concern when considering hearing in aging is the loss of hair cells located on the basilar membrane in the cochlea in the inner ear: some 12,000 ...