Consensus Meeting-June 1988-at Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 'Current Concepts of Hair Cell Function.'

内耳的感觉细胞被称为毛细胞，它们负责听力和平衡。有了现代工具，在分析这些受体如何在细胞水平上起作用方面已经有了新的复杂方法。本次会议将汇集生物物理学家、生化学家、药理学家、生理学家和解剖学家，重点讨论三个主要主题：毛细胞运动、信息处理以及毛细胞和神经细胞之间的细胞间连接。重点将是在这三个主题上达成一些共识，因为它们最近成为主要问题，因为解决它们的技术在过去十年中取得了进步。这次会议的影响很可能是外周感觉系统和中枢神经系统之间相互作用的新构想，并且对于理解一般的感觉处理，特别是理解听觉和前庭功能将是重要的。

The sensory cells of the inner ear are called hair cells, and they are responsible for hearing and balance. With modern tools, there has been a new sophistication in analyzing how these receptors work at the cellular level. This conference will bring together biophysicists, biochemists, pharmacologists, physiol- ogists and anatomists to focus on three major topics: hair cell motility, information processing, and intercellular connections among hair cells and nerve cells. The emphasis will be on reaching some consensus on these three topics, since they have recently emerged as leading issues, as the technology to address them has advanced in the last decade. The impact of this meeting is likely to be a new formulation of the role of interactions between the peripheral sensory system and the central nervous system, and will be important to understanding sensory processing in general, as well as understanding auditory and vestibular function in particular.