Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of "modes" within the human ear that put important ... to a generic mock-up of a cochlea—a spiral-shaped organ in the ...

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...

Using this approach, the researchers captured real-time images of the cochlea in action. OCT lets us look down the ear canal, through the eardrum and bone into the cochlea, and measure how it's ...