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In Maynard (USA)

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    Master

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    Maynard (USA)

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Topics for this course are based primarily on reading and discussions of original research literature that cover the analysis as well as the underlying physical and physiological mechanisms of acoustic signals in the auditory periphery. Topics include the acoustics, mechanics, and hydrodynamics of sound transmission; the biophysical basis for cochlear amplification; the physiology of hair-cell transduction and synaptic transmission; efferent feedback control; the analysis and coding of simple and complex sounds by the inner ear; and the physiological bases for hearing disorders.

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Course programme

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session


Our goals and philosophy in teaching HST.720 are:


The basic format of HST.720 is reading and discussing papers. Students will be in charge of discussing 3-5 papers per week. The faculty will be in charge of lectures and supervising paper discussions in the first 2/3 of the course. In the last 1/3 of the course, students will be in charge of lectures and supervising paper discussions.


For paper discussions, there will not be a formal presentation of the paper as was done in previous classes, instead students will be divided into two groups (1) Questioners, and (2) Answerers. Both groups will be responsible for reading the papers, but to different depths. Each paper must have at least 1 Answerer.


Questioners need to read to the depth necessary to understand what was done in the paper and to frame questions about the paper. Typical questions might be: What is the point of this paper? Why did they use technique X when technique Y seems better? What was the purpose of doing X? I don't understand Figure X, what does it mean? On page 12 they say X, but that contradicts Smith et al.'s results. What is going on?


Answerers are expected to have read the paper in depth so that they thoroughly understand it and can answer questions such as the above.


Paper preparation summaries for each session are due at the beginning of class. Each student must write a 1-page paper critique for each paper to be discussed.


Students assigned as Questioners for a given class session also turn in a list of questions to be discussed.


The last 1/3 of the course will consist of student-led topic discussions. Students must research and select a topic proposal, prepare a suggested reading list and in some cases, present a lecture about the topic.


There is no final exam. Grading will be based on a combination of:


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Physiology of the ear

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