Jennifer Hummel Email:jhummel@stud.uni-frankfurt.de Research project The hearing organ of bush crickets are located in the tibia of the forelegs and consist amongst others of a tonotopically arranged sensory cell organ, the so called crista acustica, which possibly is a basic model of hearing organs in general. The aim of my PhD project is to determine the transformation of sound to electrical information in the tropical bush cricket Mecopoda elongata including the transmission properties of the tympanal membranes as well as the influence of the induced hearing loss through noise and systemic medication. |
Publications: Hummel, J., Kössl, M. und Nowotny, M. (2011). Sound-induced tympanal Hummel J., Kössl M., Nowotny M. 2011. Does the auditory nerve activity reflect the tympanal Hummel, J., Kössl, M. und Nowotny, M. (2011). Functional coupling of |
Nowotny, M.; Hummel, J.; Weber, M.; Möckel, D.; Kössl, M. (2010): |
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