{"id":204709,"date":"2025-01-28T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/hear-ye-hear-ye-previously-unknown-set-of-cochlear-hearing-modes-supports-complexities-in-human-hearing"},"modified":"2025-01-28T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:43:49","slug":"hear-ye-hear-ye-previously-unknown-set-of-cochlear-hearing-modes-supports-complexities-in-human-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/hear-ye-hear-ye-previously-unknown-set-of-cochlear-hearing-modes-supports-complexities-in-human-hearing","title":{"rendered":"Hear ye! Hear ye! Previously unknown set of cochlear hearing modes supports complexities in human hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hear-ye-hear-ye-previously-unknown-set-of-cochlear-hearing-modes-supports-complexities-in-human-hearing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of \u201cmodes\u201d within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and discerns a stunning range of sound frequencies in between.<\/p>\n<p>By applying existing mathematical models to a generic mock-up of a cochlea\u2014a spiral-shaped organ in the inner ear\u2014the researchers have revealed a new layer of cochlear complexity. The findings, which <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PRXLife.3.013001\" target=\"_blank\">appear<\/a> in <i>PRX Life<\/i>, offer fresh insight into the remarkable capacity and accuracy of human hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe set out to understand how the ear can tune itself to detect faint sounds without becoming unstable and responding even in the absence of external sounds,\u201d said Benjamin Machta, an assistant professor of physics in Yale\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Science and co-senior author of the new study. \u201cBut in getting to the bottom of this we stumbled onto a new set of low frequency mechanical modes that the cochlea likely supports.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of \u201cmodes\u201d within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and discerns a stunning range of sound frequencies in between. By applying existing mathematical models to a generic mock-up of a cochlea\u2014a spiral-shaped organ in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}