Cochlear modeling - 1980

A general review of the present state of cochlear mechanical modeling is presented in this paper, and some new experimental neural phase data is discussed and compared to a recent theory of hair cell transduction. This theory of transduction unifies experimental mechanical and neural tuning data while it simultaneously predicts a 180° phase shift in the neural response one octave below CF. The new phase measurements qualitatively collaborate this transduction theory. The intent of this paper is to be somewhat philosophical about the future directions of cochlear modeling and cochlear theory and it attempts to provide an alternatively explanation of many widely accepted diverse experimental results.