The auditory system is the sensory system for hearing. It consists of the outer ear (the auricle and auditory canal), the middle ear (the tympanic membrane, malleus, incus and stapes), the inner ...

Simple ‘telephone’ theories of neural encoding of pitch were replaced by ‘volley’ theories 1 in which stimulus frequency was encoded in the auditory nerve as a whole. According to ...

The auditory system provides an ideal model with which to address these questions, primarily because it involves a highly ordered array of a very small number of sensory cells with well-defined ...

It could very well be the result of “noisy” signaling produced by the brain’s motor system. If proven, this could drastically ...