Normal Tuning Curves from Primary Afferent Fibres Innervating Short and Intermediate Hair Cells in the Pigeon Ear

Abstract

In contrast to primary auditory afferents from mammalian outer hair cells, afferent fibres contacting short hair cells on the pigeon basilar membrane are responsive to sound. The responses are tuned and only quantitatively different from those of fibres contacting tall hair cells and intermediate hair cells.