title: Hearing.
abstract: The aim of this chapter is to describe some of the features of the processing of the auditory world and how different levels of explanation are appropriate to the understanding of hearing. The working of the inner ear is best seen as a the operation of a purposefully structured machine for the extraction of biologically meaningful components from a sound. Physical scales determine in large part the appropriate description of the auditory system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University College London, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ashmore
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D003051:Cochlea / Q000502:physiology; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D012106:Research