M3L3 Hearing

a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency

• Pitch
• Ossicles
• Conduction deafness
• Eardrum / tympanic membrane

A sensory characteristic of sound produced by the amplitude (intensity) of the sound wave

• Loudness
• Cochlea
• Nerve deafness / sensorineural hearing loss
• Ossicles

quality of sound

• Timbre
• Oval window
• Cochlea implant
• Cochlea

A narrow region leading from the outside of the human ear to the eardrum.

• ear canal
• Basilar membrane
• Place theory
• Oval window

a thin membrane, which sound waves vibrate, that marks the beginning of the middle ear

• Eardrum / tympanic membrane
• ear cilia / hair cells
• Frequency theory / temporal theory
• Basilar membrane

three tiny bones in the middle ear: malleus, incus, stapes

• Ossicles
• Auditory nerve
• Volley theory
• ear cilia / hair cells

a coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses

• Cochlea
• Auditory cortex
• sound localization
• Auditory nerve

membrane at the enterance to the cochlea through which the ossicles transmit vibrations

• Oval window
• Conduction deafness
• Echolocation
• Auditory cortex

a structural element that divides the cochlea into two liquid-filled tubes.

• Basilar membrane
• Nerve deafness / sensorineural hearing loss
• Pitch
• Conduction deafness

when they are physically knocked over transduction occurs for sound, sends signals to the auditory nerve

• ear cilia / hair cells
• Cochlea implant
• Loudness
• Nerve deafness / sensorineural hearing loss