Bekesy

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Bé·ké·sy (b

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), Georg von 1899-1972.

Hungarian-born American physiologist. He won a 1961 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the mechanisms of stimulation within the cochlea of the ear.

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No references found			20,21) Kobrak and von Bekesy found that in human cadavers' ears the stapes changed its mode of vibration at high intensities in such a way that less energy was transmitted to the cochlea. Cohort case studies on acoustic trauma in operation Iraqi freedom by McIlwain, D. Scott; Sisk, Bryan; Hill, Melinda / U.S. Army Medical Department Journal Georg von Bekesy (1) performed critical studies in the auditory and someasthetic modalities, Walter Freeman (19) conducted studies in the olfactory, King, Xie, Zheng and Pribram (22) in the somatosensory, and Pribram, Sharafat, and Beekman (31) have shown that cells in the sensorimotor cortex are tuned to specific frequencies of movement. Quantum information processing in brain systems and the spiritual ... by Pribram, Karl / Frontier Perspectives			behavioral rasayanas behavioral science behavioral sciences behavioral symptom behavioral system model behavioral systems model behavioral technique behaviorism behaviorist behavioristic psychology behaviour Behcet's disease Behçet's disease Behcet's Syndrome Behçet's syndrome Behcet's triad Behla's bodies Behring Behring's law BEI beimu being buried alive, fear of BEIR studies bejel Bejuro marrullero Bekesy Békésy audiometry Bekhterev Bekhterev-Mendel reflex bel Belch belching belemnoid belge Belgian Belgian Blue belief Bell bell stage bell vine Bell's law Bell's muscle Bell's palsy Bell's palsy, sign, palsy test Bell's phenomenon Bell's spasm Bell-Magendie law bell-mare bell-shaped curve bell-wether bella sombra			Bek-Budi Bek-Nazarov, Amo Bek-Nazarov, Amo Ivanovich Beka Bekaa Bekaa Bekaa Valley Bekabad Bekaert Advanced Coating Technologies Bekaert Fibre Processing Systems Bekah Bekah Bekantan Bekantan Bekariukov, Dmitrii Bekariukov, Dmitrii Dmitrievich BEKC Bekdash Beke, Charles Tilstone Bekende Nederlander Bekende Vlaming Bekennende Kirche Bekenstein-Hawking radiation Bekenstein-Hawking radiation Bekes Békés Bekescsaba Békéscsaba Bekesy Békésy Békésy audiometry Békésy audiometry Békésy audiometry Bekesy, Georg von Békésy, Georg von Beketov, Aleksei Beketov, Aleksei Nikolaevich Beketov, Andrei Beketov, Andrei Nikolaevich Beketov, Nikolai Beketov, Nikolai Nikolaevich Beketov, Platon Beketov, Platon Petrovich Bekhruz Shiralibek Ogly Kengerli Bekhterev Bekhterev's (Bechterew's) disease Bekhterev's (Bechterew's) disease Bekhterev's (Bechterew's) disease Bekhterev's (Bechterew's) disease Bekhterev's disease Bekhterev's disease Bekhterev's disease Bekhterev's Mixture Bekhterev's spondylitis Bekhterev's spondylitis Bekhterev's spondylitis Bekhterev, Vladimir Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev-Mendel reflex

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