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Figure 1


Fig. 1. The relationship between hair bundle displacement and the resulting current through transduction channels. At rest (displacement=0) the transducer in many hair cells lies to the left of center on the curve (filled circle), and therefore not at the point of maximum sensitivity or greatest linearity to small inputs.





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