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What kind of sense?
energy
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Pinna
- also known as outer ear
- collects soundwaves
- part 1
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Ear cannal
- funnels sound into drum
- middle ear
- part 2
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Ear drum
- vibrates sound wavelengths
- thin membrane
- part 3
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H.A.S.
- Hammer
- Anvil
- Stirrup
- vibrates through these bones to be sent to oval window
- parts 4
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Oval window
- sound vibrates through here
- attached to stirrup
- part 5
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Cochlea
- inner ear
- looks like a snail
- filled with fluid and lined with hair cells
- sound moves fluid, fluid moves hairs
- part 6
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Organ corti
- transduction
- inside cochlea
- part 8
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Thalamus
- switchboard
- gets neural impulses and sends them to auditory cortex
- part 9
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Auditory cortex
- above the ears in the brain (two)
- part 10
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Temporal lobe
- above ears
- help us hear
- part 11
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Where in the brain?
- Auditory cortex
- Temporal Lobe
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Transduction
- the process of turning sensory stimuli into neural impulses
- here, it happens in the Organ Corti inside the cochlea
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