Some New Proposals Regarding Acoustic Transmission and Transduction
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INTRODUCTION
The principal concern of this paper will be the transmission and transduction of acoustic energy in what may be considered by some readers to be the special case of threshold and near-threshold hearing.
The first four figures and Fig. 7 of pg. 186 (H. Davis, this volume) illustrate the hearing apparatus and enable us to visualize the structures constituting the receptor organ, in which transduction of acoustic energy occurs.
Figure 1 is a composite diagram of the ear showing the pinna, middle ear with ossicles and air cavities, and the inner ear with the vestibular portion and the anterior structure, the cochlea, which contains the receptor organ of hearing.
Figure 2 is an outline diagram of the route of [Graphics Excised] acoustic transmission. This route goes through the air in the external auditory meatus, through the tympanic membrane and the bony...
