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IN NATURE, April 22, 1922 (vol. 109, p. 518), I pointed out that a series of clicks from a toothed wheel speeded up or down or by the voice is heard as a rising or falling tone and not as a noise or a jumble of tones. This fact contradicts the resonance theory of the mechanism of the cochlea.
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SCRIPTURE, E. The Theory of Hearing. Nature 115, 228–229 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115228a0
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