When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up the vibrations and alert the brain. Encoded in their signals is a ...

The first clue that they might play different roles in hearing came about 40 years ago as the result of a painstaking anatomical investigation which revealed that most of the nerve fibers that carry ...

These individual neurons combine in complex and often counter ... "We hope to better understand the inner workings of neural networks, and critically, to use this understanding to build more ...

The inner ear is divided into two fluid filled chambers - one inside the other ... These tiny "hairs" are called stereocilia and are arranged in rows that increase in length towards one side of the ...