HST.720 | Fall 2004 | Graduate

Physiology of the Ear

Calendar

JG: Professor John Guinan, Jr.
JR: Professor John Rosowski
CS: Professor Christopher Shera

SES # TOPICS LECTURERS KEY DATES
1 Course Organization and Introduction    
2 Middle Ear Papers

Lecture: Middle Ear

JR  
3 Middle Ear Papers JR  
4 Middle Ear Papers (cont.) JR  
5 Middle Ear Papers (cont.)

Lecture: Cochlear Mechanics

Cochlear Mechanics Papers

JR, JG  
6 Cochlear Mechanics JG  
7 Cochlear Mechanics (cont.) JG  
8 Cochlear Mechanics (cont.) JG  
9 Motility From Hair Cell Stereocilia JG  
10 Cochlear Mechanics JG, CS  
11 Cochlear Mechanics: Karaviktaki

Lecture: Hair Cells Cochlear

Amplification, Otoacoustic Emissions

JG  
12 Spontaneous Oscillations JG, CS  
13 Outer Hair Cell Somatic Motility JG  
14 Control of OHC Motility JG  
15 Otoacoustic Emissions JG, CS  
16 Otoacoustic Emissions (cont.) JG  
17 Otoacoustic Emissions (cont.) JG, CS Abstracts due for student presentations
18 Student Presentations Of Suggested Topics    
19 Student-Selected Topic:
Modulation of f1-f2 acoustic distortion: Evidence for intracochlear neural system?
   
20 Student-Selected Topic:
Changes in cochlear tonotopy during development
   
21 Student-Selected Topic:
Auditory nerve response to speech stimuli in normal and traumatized cochleae
   
22 Student-Selected Topic:
Processing speech and music sounds in the auditory periphery:  Computational models of inner hair cell and auditory nerve fiber responses
   
23 Student-Selected Topic:
Variability of hearing organ morphology and physiology among animals: Universal similarities/differences
   
24 Student-Selected Topic:
Variability of hearing organ morphology and physiology among animals: Universal similarities/differences (cont.)
   
25 Student-Selected Topic:
Molecular structures of transduction gating
   
26 Student-Selected Topic:
Adaptation of mechanoelectrical transduction channels in stereocilia of auditory hair cells