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Hallowell Davis
Hallowell Davis
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animal cochicar potentials, human evokoc! brain potentials, en c!
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in May 1923 in a refugee camp near Istanbul, while they were members of a meclical relief team treating war-clisplacec! persons suffering from typhus, smallpox, and cholera.
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en c! bacI." His 1959 past presiclent's aciciress to the American Physiological Society views the growth of the human population as alarming, cites the inevitability of the Malthusian equation, and urges his listeners to study the situation en c!
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During his postdoctoral year in Englanc! he was a runner, he once acimittecI, or cIaimecI, he lost a foot race with the 1922 Olympic mile champion Abrams, who was features!
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histological sections of his temporal bones, which reveal to the experts in such matters the cochicar hair cell abnormalities typical of a severe hearing loss. In the eight clecacles between these offerings he publisher!
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"Amplification of Action Currents with the Electron Tube in Recording with the String Galvanometer." When the definitive history of moclern electrophysiology is written it will surely cite this remarkable paper as among the first, if not actually the first, to use electronic amplification in biology.) Davis user!
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The resulting photographic superimposition was his pre-computer way to identify response similarities en c! differences "examples appear in our joint publication on single auditory neurons ~ ~ 943 )
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response method for analyzing compound action potentials. He became the principal auditory theorist of his time by incorporating new information of this sort his own and that of others into a progressively more specific and real
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Pauline Davis, who was active in brainwave research for nearly ten years, publisher! the first human auditory cortical responses from this laboratory in 1939.4 The remaining sections of this memoir will show that her husbanc!
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a secret report conclucling that Touc! noise was an unlikely offensive weapon, but it was a certain way to produce permanent hearing loss (1950~.
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hearing aicis, predict for Congress the probable damage produced by a sky full of commercial airplanes making sonic booms, list the requirements for a comprehensive en c! efficient clinical cliagnosis of hearing Toss, en c!
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with humor, at once a useful take-home gift to his listeners en c! a virtuoso clisplay of his remarkable ability to listen with care en c!
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the International Electric Response Audiometry Stucly Group en c! servec!
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micicIle latency evokoc! responses, conclucling at last that the late ones would not make a useful test, but that a version of the
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, the Acoustical Society of America ~ ~ 953) , and the American Physiological Society (1958)
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the Wever en c! Bray animal cochlear response.
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An amplifier, string galvanometer, and photographic camera designed for the study of action potentials in nerve.
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The preface of this 187-page monograph states, "As one of his many gracious customs, Hallowell Davis exchanged photographic portraits with each of his associates in research on or shortly after the occasion of their departure." Over the years, he posted more than seventy of these in the third floor corridor of his research building. The monograph collects testimonials from almost all of the graduate students, postdocs, and advanced scientists who worked with Davis in St.
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The response of single auditory nerve fibers to acoustic stimulation.
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Inhibition of activity in single auditory nerve fibers by acoustic stimulation.
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Frequency selectivity and thresholds of brief stimuli suitable for electric response audiometry. Audiology 23:59-74.
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