Ashmore, J;
(2018)
The neuroscience of hearing or how to do a hard job with soft components.
Brain and Neuroscience Advances
, 2
pp. 1-4.
10.1177/2398212818810687.
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Abstract
The inner ear is a small and relatively inaccessible structure. The use of multiple biophysical recording techniques from the late 1970s onwards, combined with molecular genetics to identify genes critically involved in cochlear development, has revealed how the cochlea acts as the front end for the central nervous system analysis of the auditory world. Some notable progress has been made in clarifying the mechanisms of frequency coding and cochlear amplification, and of mechano-transduction in hair cells and in establishing molecules necessary for normal (and by implication in abnormal) development of hearing and balance. There has been a parallel growth in understanding some of the neural networks in the brainstem and cortical areas responsible for processing the information derived from the auditory nerve. Informing future technical improvements to hearing aids and cochlear implants (electrically and optogenetically encoded), this chapter concentrates mainly on the neuroscience of peripheral hearing.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The neuroscience of hearing or how to do a hard job with soft components |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2398212818810687 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2398212818810687 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Hearing, cochlea, hair cells, ribbon synapse, gene therapy, cochlear implant |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058484 |
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