Mammalian cochlea as a physics guided evolution-optimized hearing sensor
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2015-09-16 v2 Neurons and Cognition
Abstract
Nonlinear physics plays an essential role in hearing, from sound signal generation to sound sensing to the processing of complex sound environments. We demonstrate that the evolution of the biological hearing sensors demonstrates a dramatic reduction in the solution space available for hearing sensors due to nonlinear physics principles. More specifically, our analysis hints at that the differences between amniotic lineages hearing, could be recast into a scaleable and a non-scaleable arrangement of nonlinear sound detectors. The scalable solution employed in mammals, as the most advanced design, provides a natural context that demands the ultimate characterization of complex sounds through pitch.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.0655,
title = {Mammalian cochlea as a physics guided evolution-optimized hearing sensor},
author = {Tom Lorimer and Florian Gomez and Ruedi Stoop},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0655},
year = {2015}
}