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Diagram showing auditory mechanisms in insects, including labeled illustrations of a scolophore organ, the mosquito ear with antenna shaft and scolophores, the cicada ear with auditory capsule and tympanic membrane, and the grasshopper ear with sensory body and tympanic membrane.

generalized labyrinth of vertebrates

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human ear air conduction bone conduction middle ear otic capsule external ear inertial bone conduction compression bone conduction cercal organ tympanal organ Electroreception proprioception

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Georg von Békésy

American physicist and physiologist