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A SERIES of communications by Scripture, Wilkinson, and Hartridge concerning the mechanism of hearing has recently appeared in NATURE. In Prof. Scripture's most recent letter (February 14, p. 228), the work of Fletcher (Phys. Rev., March 1924) and that of Wegel and Lane (Phys. Rev., February 1924) are stated to be irreconcilable with the so-called “resonance theory” of hearing and as being in accord with a “pattern” or “deformation” theory which he advocates.
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WEGEL, R. The Theory of Hearing. Nature 116, 393–394 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116393a0
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