Bill's Mechanoreception Page

Displacement vs. Pressure waves for a sound

Mechanoreceptor structure for an arthropod (SEMs of spider touch receptor and trichobothria)

Structure of arthropod lyraform and slit sense organs (Vibration Receptors)

Simplified structure of an insect ear

Cricket Song

Two neuromasts in a lateral line stitch of Xenopus laevis. af, afferent fibers; cu, cupula; ef, efferent fibers; hc, hair cells; mc, mantle cells; sc, supporting cells

Bones of middle ear

General Ear Structure

How vibrations transmitted through the canals excites hair cells on the basilar membrane