Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Andy Evans wrote:

How does the cochlea separate a complex sound into its different
frequency components?


It doesn't - it's part of a simple microphone. The brain does the clever
bits.


I woudn't argue that the brain does the clever bits, but the little I
have read about the subject shows that the operation of the cochlea is
nothing like any microphone I have seen, and is far from simple.

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Nick