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Receptor cells in many organs of the acoustico-lateralis system use active filtering mechanisms to detect sensory stimuli. The mechanisms appear to differ, but in each case feedback theory can be used to describe the filtering process. Changes in membrane potential appear to regulate electrical and/or electrical-mechanical changes in the receptor cell which lead to band-pass filtering of the sensory stimulus. An important feature of all these filtering processes appears to be a delay in the feedback loop which leads to a highly underdamped system.
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Mountain, D.C. (1986). Active Filtering by Hair Cells. In: Allen, J.B., Hall, J.L., Hubbard, A.E., Neely, S.T., Tubis, A. (eds) Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50038-1_23
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