Auditory Biophysics

Uitgebreide vaknaam	Auditory Biophysics
Leerdoelen	The goal of this course is to provide students with up to date knowledge on how the inner ear receives, transduces and preprocesses acoustic information before it is transmitted to the brain.
Omschrijving	1. Anatomy and physiology of the auditory system (peripheral ear; hydrodynamical frequency separation; organ of Corti; the auditory pathway) 2. Basic acoustics (wave equation; solutions; plane and circular waves; primary and secondary acoustic entities) 3. Cochlear mechanics (hydrodynamics; pressure and velocity distributions along organ of Corti, damping, basilar membrane mechanics; frequency selectivity) 4. Transduction (hair cell micromechanics, mechanosensory ion channels; signal-to-noise of ionic channels; hair cell physiology) 5. Nonlinear cochlear phenomena (two-tone suppression; combination tones; combination tones; suppression) 6. Auditory neural coding and stochastic description of neural data (Electrophysiological potentials, Poisson process; Poisson process in response to a pure tone) 7. Auditory modeling (description of auditory processing based on a classical cascaded model of peripheral hearing) 8. Hearing and lateral line sensory system in fish (anatomy, biophysical description of hydrodynamic transfer characteristics, array detection)
Uren per week
Onderwijsvorm	Bijeenkomst (S) (In addition to writing an essay each participant presents a topic. Preparation and attendance of- and participation in all meetings is mandatory)
Toetsvorm	Verslag (R) (Assessment is based on the presentation and essay and the participation/interaction during the meetings)
Vaksoort	master
Coördinator	dr. S.M. van Netten
Docent(en)	dr. S.M. van Netten
Entreevoorwaarden
Opmerkingen	A list of literature to be studied will be announced at the start of the course and provided via Nestor.
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