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Audition?
The sense or act of hearing
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Frequency?
# of complete wavelength that pass a point in a given time (ex: per second)
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Pitch?
A tone’s experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency
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Middle Ear?
Chamber b/w the eardrum and cochlea containing 3 tiny bones -hammer, anvil, stirrup-that concentrates the vibrations of the eardrum on the cochlea’s oval window
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Cochlea?
Coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses
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Inner ear?
The innermost part of the ear, containing the cochlea, semicircular canals and vestibular sacs
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Place Theory?
The people hear different pitches because different sounds waves trigger activity at different places, determines a pitch by recognizing specific place that is generating neural signal
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Frequency Theory?
When the brain reads pitch by monitoring the frequency of neural impulses traveling up the auditory nerve.
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Conductive hearing loss?
Problems with the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea
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Sensorineural hearing loss?
Damage to the cochlea’s hair cell receptors or their associated nerves
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Cochlear implant?
Converting sounds into electrical signals ands stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea
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Kinesthesis?
Sense of the position and movement of body parts
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Vestibular sense?
Monitor’s the head and body’s position and movement
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Gate-control theory?
Theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain
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Sensory interaction?
Principle that 1sense may influence another- smell of food
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