We often take our hearing for granted. Whether it is the calming sound of the waves as they collapse upon the shore, or the delightful strains of a gentle symphony, hearing just seems to happen and with little effort on our part!
But behind all of this lies a mechanism that is tremendously …
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The second of the three stages of our hearing apparatus is the middle ear.
The middle ear transfers the vibration of sound from the ear-drum to the cochlea where it can be converted into nerve signals. This transfer of vibration from one place to another might appear to be a very simple t…
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The Inner Ear
In the previous article we saw how sound (the vibration of air on the eardrum) was converted by the middle ear to vibration of the stapes’ footplate on the oval window of the cochlea. Now we move onto considering the cochlea itself. The cochlea is where these vibrations are co…
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The Inner Ear
In the previous article we saw how the structure of the cochlea enabled it to separate sound into its component frequencies: waves travel along the basilar membrane until they reach their characteristic place: high frequencies resonating near the base, and low frequencies reachi…
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