People

Recently inducted into AIMBE "for significant engineering-driven advance in the structure-function-mechanism relations of auditory physiology, with emphasis on outer hair cells and cochlea".

Research Interests

Auditory information processing; sensory biophysics; computer simulation; biomedical electronics; biomedical signal processing; environmental engineering.

Current Research

Dr. Mountain's research centers around the experimental and theoretical
studies of hearing function, including: cochlear biomechanics, otoacoustic
emissions, auditory processing of complex sounds, and auditory evoked
potentials. Professor Mountain also engages in studies designed to predict
the impact of anthropogenic sound sources on marine mammals.

Selected Recent Publications

Mountain, D.C., Zosuls, Z., Newburg, S., and Ketten, D.R. "Predicting Cetacean Audiograms" Bioacoustics 17: 77-80 (2008)

Karavitaki, K.D. and Mountain, D.C. "Imaging Electrically-Evoked
Micromechanical Motion within the Organ of Corti of the Excised Gerbil
Cochlea" Biophys. J. 92: 3294-316 (2007)

Karavitaki, K.D. and Mountain, D.C. "Evidence for Outer Hair Cell
Driven Oscillatory Fluid Flow in the Tunnel of Corti" Biophys. J.
92: 3284-93 (2007)

Naidu, R.C. and Mountain, D.C. "Basilar Membrane Tension
Calculations for the Gerbil Cochlea" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121: 994-1002 (2007)

Miller, B.S., Zosuls, A.L., Ketten, D.R. and Mountain, D.C. "Middle
Ear Stiffness of the Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops Truncates" IEEE J.
Oceanic Eng. 31: 87-94 (2006)

Chen, F., Cohen, H.I., Bifano, T.G., Castle, J., Fortin, J., Kapusta, C.,
Mountain, D.C., Zosuls, A. and Hubbard, A.E. "A Hydromechanical
Biomimetic Cochlea: Experiments and Models" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 394-405 (2006)