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Hearing – allows us to detect and interpret sound waves

Hearing – allows us to detect and interpret sound waves Equilibrium – inform us of the position of the head in space The receptors for both senses are mechanoreceptors called hair cells. The Ear: Hearing and Balance. The three parts of the ear are the inner , outer , and middle ear

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Hearing – allows us to detect and interpret sound waves

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  1. Hearing – allows us to detect and interpret sound waves • Equilibrium – inform us of the position of the head in space • The receptors for both senses are mechanoreceptors called hair cells.

  2. The Ear: Hearing and Balance • The three parts of the ear are the inner, outer, and middle ear • The outer and middle ear are involved with hearing • The inner ear functions in both hearing and equilibrium • Receptors for hearing and balance: • Respond to separate stimuli • Are activated independently

  3. Inner ear • The inner ear is housed within a bony labyrinth. • Passageways within the bone are lined with membranous labyrinth. • Between bone and membrane is a fluid called perilymph • Endolymph fills the chamber within the membranous labyrinth.

  4. Bony labirinth http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/audvest.html

  5. Reissner’s membrane Scala vestibuli Scala media Scala tympani Tectorial membrane Auditory nerve Outer hair cell Basilar membrane Inner hair cell The Cochlea • The cochlea is divided into three chambers: • Scala vestibuli • Scala media • Scala tympani

  6. The Cochlea • The scala tympani terminates at the round window • The scalas tympani and vestibuli: • Are filled with perilymph • Are continuous with each other via the helicotrema • The scala media is filled with endolymph

  7. Sound and Mechanisms of Hearing • Sound vibrations beat against the eardrum • The eardrum pushes against the ossicles, which presses fluid in the inner ear against the oval and round windows • This movement sets up shearing forces that pull on hair cells • Moving hair cells stimulates the cochlear nerve that sends impulses to the brain

  8. Transmission of Sound to the Inner Ear • The route of sound to the inner ear follows this pathway: • Outer ear – pinna, auditory canal, eardrum • Middle ear – malleus, incus, and stapes to the oval window • Inner ear – scalas vestibuli and tympani to the cochlear duct • Stimulation of the organ of Corti • Generation of impulses in the cochlear nerve

  9. The Organ of Corti • Is composed of supporting cells and outer and inner hair cells • Afferent fibers of the cochlear nerve attach to the base of hair cells • The stereocilia (hairs): • project into the endolymph • Touch the tectorial membrane

  10. Excitation of Hair Cells in the Organ of Corti • Bending cilia: • Opens mechanically gated ion channels • Causes a graded potential and the release of a neurotransmitter (probably glutamate) • The neurotransmitter causes cochlear fibers to transmit impulses to the brain, where sound is perceived

  11. Mechanisms of Equilibrium and Orientation • Vestibular apparatus – equilibrium receptors in the semicircular canals and vestibule • Maintains our orientation and balance in space • The position of the body with respect to gravity (static equilibrium) – the vestibule • The motion of the body (dynamic equilibrium) – the semicircular canals

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