Physiological Structure

  • cochlea - basilar membrane
  • frequency/place mapping


    "critical band:" a region of interaction along the basilar membrane; roughly 1 mm in distance (Greenwood, 1961; Plomp & Levelt, 1965; Glasberg & Moore, 1990)



  • There is enough information in Haydn's string quartet Opus 17, No. 3 to accurately estimate the distribution and size of critical bands in the human cochlea (Huron & Sellmer, 1992; Huron, 2001).