The basilar membrane of the inner ear is an elastic shell immersed in fluid that vibrates in response to the incident sound.
The facial motor nucleus also innervates the inner ear, which is implicated in both attentional and communicative processes.
The trigeminal nerve originates from this region of the brainstem, the posterior part of which has transversely constricted sidewalls to accommodate the inner ear.
What we want to explain here is why there are roughly 2,000 sound receptors in the inner ear.
Paint-filling of the inner ear revealed truncations of the superior and\or the posterior semicircular canals.
The electrophysiological properties of photoreceptor calcium currents are similar to those of inner ear hair cells.
But this essay is actually about the workings of the inner ear, and even that becomes an introduction to the wondrous intricacies of the cochlea.
The major properties of the hair cell in the inner ear are temporal coding and adaptation behaviour.
