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Mr. ACKERMANN (NATURE, May 20, p. 649) is probably correct when he states that the first incoming sound wave sets all the resonators of the ear temporarily in vibration, and also, that as the sound waves continue the vibrating resonators decrease in number until only those are left in motion that are executing either sympathetic or forced vibration in time with the incoming sound waves. But surely he has left out of account the probable amplitude of the motion performed by the resonators, and the probable physiological properties of the mechanism, when he judges the intensity of the sound stimuli sent along the auditory nerve to the brain to be directly proportional to the number of resonators that are swinging at any moment?
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HARTRIDGE, H. The Resonance Theory of Hearing. Nature 110, 9–10 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110009b0
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