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Emerging Cochlear Mechanics

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Cochlear mechanics is a field that relies strongly on fluid mechanics, linear and nonlinear signal processing, and additional mathematical tools. This is applied to a biological structure. A selection of useful—and possibly superfluous—prerequisites is presented in Appendix 8. Throughout, terminology and unit definitions follow the ANSI (2005) standard acoustical terminology.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 9, 9749 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Dr. Hendrikus Duifhuis

  2. BCN-NeuroImaging Center, Antonius Deusinglaan 2, 9713 AW, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Dr. Hendrikus Duifhuis

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Duifhuis, H. (2012). Emerging Cochlear Mechanics. In: Cochlear Mechanics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6117-4_3

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