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JG: Professor John Guinan, Jr.
JR: Professor John Rosowski
CS: Professor Christopher Shera

SES # TOPICS LECTURERS KEY DATES
1 Course Organization and Introduction
2 Middle Ear Papers

Lecture: Middle Ear
JR
3 Middle Ear Papers JR
4 Middle Ear Papers (cont.) JR
5 Middle Ear Papers (cont.)

Lecture: Cochlear Mechanics

Cochlear Mechanics Papers
JR, JG
6 Cochlear Mechanics JG
7 Cochlear Mechanics (cont.) JG
8 Cochlear Mechanics (cont.) JG
9 Motility From Hair Cell Stereocilia JG
10 Cochlear Mechanics JG, CS
11 Cochlear Mechanics: Karaviktaki

Lecture: Hair Cells Cochlear

Amplification, Otoacoustic Emissions
JG
12 Spontaneous Oscillations JG, CS
13 Outer Hair Cell Somatic Motility JG
14 Control of OHC Motility JG
15 Otoacoustic Emissions JG, CS
16 Otoacoustic Emissions (cont.) JG
17 Otoacoustic Emissions (cont.) JG, CS Abstracts due for student presentations
18 Student Presentations Of Suggested Topics
19 Student-Selected Topic:
Modulation of f1-f2 acoustic distortion: Evidence for intracochlear neural system?
20 Student-Selected Topic:
Changes in cochlear tonotopy during development
21 Student-Selected Topic:
Auditory nerve response to speech stimuli in normal and traumatized cochleae
22 Student-Selected Topic:
Processing speech and music sounds in the auditory periphery:  Computational models of inner hair cell and auditory nerve fiber responses
23 Student-Selected Topic:
Variability of hearing organ morphology and physiology among animals: Universal similarities/differences
24 Student-Selected Topic:
Variability of hearing organ morphology and physiology among animals: Universal similarities/differences (cont.)
25 Student-Selected Topic:
Molecular structures of transduction gating
26 Student-Selected Topic:
Adaptation of mechanoelectrical transduction channels in stereocilia of auditory hair cells