3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
Acoustics and Fourier analysis; outer ear resonance and interaural differences; middle ear impedance and structure; inner ear mechanical responses; hair-cell transduction, electrophysiology, motility; cochlear potentials; cochlear amplifier; suppression; otoacoustic emissions; efferent feedback to the cochlea; damage to the ear; treatments for damaged ears. Permission of department required.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the application of signals and systems theory to experimental characterizations of the peripheral auditory system.
2Understand the anatomical and physiological bases for normal hearing in the peripheral auditory system.
3Understand the anatomical and physiological bases for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, and associated diagnostics.
4Understand the general approaches to treating peripheral hearing loss, and the anatomical and physiological limitations in doing so.
5Read primary journal articles.
6Communicate scientific information orally.
7Communicate scientific results with laypeople (e.g., patients, spouses, family members).
Restrictions
GPA by professor
made by Purdue students.