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There is increasing evidence that different classes of animals use different frequency tuning mechanisms. Recent measurements in mammals (Khanna and Leonard, 1982; Sellick et al., 1982; Robles et al., 1985) indicate that the basilar membrane is sharply tuned and imply that the inner hair cell may be simply an untuned transducer of this motion into neural excitation. The sharp tuning of the basilar membrane, however, would appear to arise from a combination of poorly-tuned passive mechanics with an active positive feedback mechanism (Gold, 1947) probably associated with the outer hair cells (Mountain, 1980). At the other extreme, electroreceptors in weakly electric fish also demonstrate sharp tuning presumably due to electrical resonance of hair cells (Hopkins, 1976, Bass and Hopkins, 1984). Although electrical tuning has been demonstrated in the bullfrog sacculus (Lewis and Hudspeth, 1983) and in the turtle ear (Crawford and Fettiplace, 1981) there is now evidence that the latter has a mechanical correlate (Crawford and Fettiplace, 1985). Other species appear to utilise micromechanical processes of various types. Suggested mechanisms include mechanical resonance of the stereocilia bundle (Turner et al., 1981; Khanna, 1983; Freeman and Weiss, 1985), mechanical resonance of segments of the basilar papilla/organ of Corti (Holton and Hudspeth, 1983; Wilson, 1977), and mechanical resonance of the tectorial membrane (Allen, 1977).
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Whitehead, M.L., Wilson, J.P., Baker, R.J. (1986). The Effects of Temperature on Otoacoustic Emission Tuning Properties. In: Moore, B.C.J., Patterson, R.D. (eds) Auditory Frequency Selectivity. Nato ASI Series, vol 119. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2247-4_5
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