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Open AccessVibration direction sensitivity of the cochlea with bone conduction stimulation in guinea pigs
Sound and vibrations that cause the skull bone to vibrate can be heard as ordinary sounds and this is termed hearing by bone conduction (BC). Not all mechanisms that causes a skull vibration to result in BC he...
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Open AccessSimulation of the power transmission of bone-conducted sound in a finite-element model of the human head
Bone conduction (BC) sound is the perception of sound transmitted in the skull bones and surrounding tissues. To better understand BC sound perception and the interaction with surrounding tissues, the power tr...
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Open AccessA mechanoelectrical mechanism for detection of sound envelopes in the hearing organ
To understand speech, the slowly varying outline, or envelope, of the acoustic stimulus is used to distinguish words. A small amount of information about the envelope is sufficient for speech recognition, but ...
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Hearing Aid Transducers
This chapter contains a brief historical and descriptive review of the microphones, earphones, and bone vibrators that are the essential elements in a hearing aid. The dramatic reduction in size of microphones...
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Bone Conduction and the Middle Ear
With more than a century of research in the field of bone conduction (BC) hearing, the importance of the contributors for bone-conducted sound is not clarified and there is no consensus on the issues. However,...
