Until now, the part of the ear that processes speech was poorly reflected in computer models, but University of Michigan researchers have figured out the math that describes how it works—which could ...

Dear Doctors: I am 45 years old and have sudden sensorineural hearing loss that is significant. There is no known cause. I’m told that the only option now or in the future is a cochlear implant. How ...

Professor UEYAMA Takehiko (Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University) and the inner ear research group (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine) have identified the cell types in the inner ear ...

Shortly before his death in August 2025, A. James Hudspeth and his team in the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University achieved a groundbreaking technological advancement: the ...

The next time someone whispers in your ear, think "cochlea." The cochlea is the marvelous structure in the inner ear that is shaped like a snail shell and transforms sounds into the nerve impulses ...

For decades, hearing experts thought that the cochlea's spiral shape was simply an efficient packing job and its shape had no effect on how this critical hearing organ functions. But a recent study by ...

Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on the market. These artificial ears have allowed nearly 1 million people globally with severe to profound hearing loss to either ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The ongoing debate about the mechanism by which the mammalian inner ear amplifies incoming sounds now sees the publication of new ...

Apparently, every single thing in the universe seems to have its own web page, and the cochlea of the inner ear is no exception. In fact, the ear may be the most interesting organ of the body. With ...

I THINK it is evident that Prof. H. E. Roaf (NATURE, April 14, p. 498) and I approach the problem of the action of the cochlea from different aspects. He says: “A variation in pressure applied to the ...