Psycho-What?!?
Malleus 'n Incus 'n Stapes Oh My!
Let's Play It By Ear!
You Spin Me Right Round!
Can you "ear" me?
100
The psychological perception of frequency.
What is pitch?
100

The middle ear overcomes this mismatch between air and cochlear fluid.

What is the impedance mismatch?

100

The gelatinous structure that makes contact with the hair cell stereocilia

What is the tectorial membrane?

100
The name of our balance system.
What is the vestibular system?
100

X axis on the audiogram 

What is frequency?

200

The smallest pressure detectable by the auditory system.

What is 20 micropascals?

200
The structure responsible for equalizing pressure and maximizing TM mobility.
What is the Eustachian tube?
200

This type of hearing loss results from damage to the cochlea.

What is sensorineural hearing loss?

200
The sensory receptors known as superior, posterior, and lateral in the vestibular system.
What are the semicircular canals?
200
blue "x" and red "o" on the audiogram
What are air conduction symbols for the left ear (x) and right ear (o)?
300

A plot of amplitude as a function of frequency.

What is a spectrum?

300

The three bones of the middle ear are collectively known as this.

What are the ossicles?

300
Generates vibrations of the skull and stimulates the cochlea directly.
What is bone conduction?
300
The sensory cells that provide input to the vestibular nerve in the otoliths.
What is macula?
300
Impaired air and bone conduction thresholds with no more than a 10dB difference (air bone gap)

What is the sensorineural?

400
The difference between the softest sound we can hear and the point where it is so loud it is uncomfortable.
What is dynamic range?
400

The reflex that protects the inner ear from loud sounds.

What is the acoustic reflex?

400

How the inner ear or cochlea is organized (i.e. the basal end of the cochlea corresponds to high frequencies)

What is tonotopically?

400
The sensory cells in the semicircular canals responsible for angular acceleration.
What is ampulla?
400

65 dB HL (degree)

What is moderately severe?

500

This auditory effect occurs when sound waves interact and cancel each other due to differences in phase.

What is interference?

500

The surgical procedure in which a diseased stapes is replaced with a prosthesis.

What is a stapedectomy?

500

The sensory organ of hearing located in the cochlea

What is the Organ of Corti?

500

Cranial nerve that innervates the vestibular system? 

What is the 8th cranial nerve? 

500

Better low frequency thresholds, poorer high frequency thresholds

What is sloping? 

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