| How the Ear Works - Nature's Solutions for Listening Recommended Resources: Books, Articles and the Internet Books James O Pickles, An Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing, Academic Press, 2nd edition -1988. The 3rd edition is due out in 1997. This single authored book provides an excellent overview of hearing mechanisms from the external ear to the brain. It is easily read by someone with a good high school or early college background in biology. Hair Cells and Hearing Aids. C.I. Berlin, editor. Singular Publishing Group, Inc. San Diego - 1996. This book contains contributions to a one day symposium with the same title. The level of the chapters range from intermediate to advanced and the book includes an instructive CD that demonstrates the role of outer hair cells in hearing. The Cochlea. From the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. P. Dallos, A.N. Popper, R.R. Fay, Editors. Springer, New York 1996. This book provides up to date research reviews on the inner ear with contributions by many scientists. Information on the cochlea is more complete and more technical than the Pickles book. Articles Audiological Processing in Sensorineural Hearing Loss: What the Ear Tells the Brain. M. Charles Liberman. Published in the Journal "Hearing Loss" p 9-13, March/April issue 1997. This easy to read paper provides an excellent description of how auditory information is "coded" in the nerve fibers that leave the cochlea for the brain. "Hearing Loss" is published by Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH), a national organization dedicated to improving hard of hearing people's lives though education, advocacy and self help. The Internet The internet provides a great deal of information on hearing. There are a number of websites on hearing research and several support groups for the hearing impaired. The net, with its multimedia capabilities, is an exciting educational tool and a tremendous amount of information is available. As with any media which thrives on free expression, you must exercise careful judgment as to the accuracy of specific websites. Four URLs that will get you started are: http://www.aro.org/ - The Association for Research in Otolaryngology. See the Virtual Library for resources around the world. http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/oto/ - The Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. See the sections on Educational Resources. http://www.agbell.org/index.html/ Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf established in 1890 to empower persons who are hearing impaired to function independently by promoting universal rights and optimal opportunities to learn to use, maintain, and improve all aspects of their verbal communications. http://www.iurc.montp.inserm.fr/cric/audition/english Promenade 'round the Cochlea, an informative tutorial about the inner ear from the Pujol laboratory in Montpellier. http://www.shhh.org/ Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.
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