Outer
The outer ear is also known as the ___.
What is pinna?
What is vibrates in accordance with air pressure?
The main structure of the inner ear involved in the hearing process.
What is cochlea?
The auditory nerve divides here.
What is the brainstem?
What is Heschel's gyrus or Sylvian fissure?
Two protective devices in the ear canal.
What is hair? What is ear wax?
The three bones that connect the eardrum to the inner ear.
What is hammer (malleus), anvil (incus), and stirrup (stapes)?
The middle ear is full of fluid and the inner ear is air-filled. True or False?
False.
What is binaural time cuing?
The fetus can respond to sounds in the womb at this time in development.
What is last trimester?
Primary functions of ear canal.
What is controls temperature and humidity? What is amplifies? What is channels air pressure?
One way the middle ear protects against loud noises.
What is Acoustic Stapedius Reflex? What is stiffens eardrum? What is twists ossicles bones? What is alters stirrup?
The names of the membranes on either side of the cochlear duct.
What is Reissner's membrane and basilar membrane?
The membrane involved in distinguishing frequencies.
What is basilar membrane?
A consequence of learning the sounds of your culture.
What is it becomes more difficult to perceive other acoustic patterns?
2000-4000 Hz
The function of the Eustachian tube.
What is drains fluid to equalize air pressure on the eardrum?
Hair cells located near the oval window respond to ___ frequencies, and those located near the helicotrema respond to ___ frequencies.
What is high, low?
Tonotopic organization is ___.
What is the system that keeps track of pitch?
When the auditory processing moves from brainstem to auditory cortex, __ increases.
What are linguistic and musical perceptual skills?
Three aids in localization. (Name at least 2)
What is cupping a hand behind the ear? What are ridges and folds (inner contour)? What are timing cues?
This equation explains ___.
P = F/A
What is the increase in amplification in sound from the eardrum to the oval window?
The number of hair cells in the outer rows of the arches of Corti.
What is 20,000?
The auditory nerve is a part of which number cranial nerve.
What is 8?
What is auditory stream segregation?