References & Links

Useful websites 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXQ6PuIc4s&feature=related
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_impairment
• www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/soundtransduction.html
• openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3373&topic=all    

Other sources

Information and copyright-friendly images used in this website are obtained from:

• Flickr
• Wikimedia commons
• Wikipedia encyclopedia
• Openlearn 

Further reading  

Bear, M. F., Connors, B. W. and Paradiso, M. A. (2007)
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (Third Edition)
Philadelphia. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.  

Purves, D. et al. (2004)
Neuroscience (Third Edition)
Sunderland. Sinauer Associates,Inc.   

Mistrik, P. et al (2009)
Three-dimensional current flow in a large-scale model of the cochlea and the mechanism of amplification of sound.
J.Royal Society 6: 279-291 

Wilson,B.M. and Dorman, M. F. (2008)
Cochlear implants: Current designs and future possibilities
JJRD 45: 695-730                                                                                                      

R. Prakash and A.J.Ricci. (2008)
Hair bundles teaming up to tune the mammalian cochlea.
PNAS 105: 18951-18652