The cochlear hook region detects harmonics beyond the canonical hearing range
Kazuhiro Horii, Bakushi Ogawa, Noriko Nagase, Iori Niitsu Morimoto, Chikara Abe, Takenori Ogawa, Samuel Choi, Fumiaki Nin
The paper shows that the cochlear hook region in guinea pigs detects ultrasound harmonics beyond the typical hearing range through resonance and nonlinear amplification.
PNAS Nexus · Jun 28, 2024Peer-reviewedPhysiology