Affiliation:
1. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the The Russian Academy of Science
Abstract
The review is devoted to the mechanism of compression in the mammals auditory system. The compression provides the high sensitivity with a wide dynamic range of the auditory system, and sharpness of the frequency tuning. In this review, three main methods for detecting compression were observed: the direct registration of basilar membrane vibrations, the registration of the auditory nerve, and the psychoacoustic studies. At the end of the review, the question of the morphofunctional basis of compression in the cochlea briefly was observed.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences