Sentences with phrase «detecting airborne sound»

The results show that even vertebrates without outer and middle ears are capable of detecting airborne sound.

A new study shows that they are capable of detecting airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.

Surprisingly, the measurements showed that not only the terrestrial adult salamanders, but also the fully aquatic juvenile salamanders — and even the lungfish, which are completely maladapted to aerial hearing — were able to detect airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.

Not exact matches

«It has not completely lost this ability to sensitively detect ground vibrations through the jaw but has gained some of the modern mammal ability to hear airborne sounds,» Luo adds.

For sensor cells to receive signals, he says, there must be a mechanism for transforming the large, weak airborne sound waves into smaller but more powerful fluid - borne sound waves that the sensor cells can detect — a process called impedance matching.