Pineda Lecture Flashcards
Increase in pressure
Compression
Sense of hearing into electrical energy
Sound wave
Decrease in pressure
Decompression
Units for expressing sound pressure are
Decibels dB
Measured in cycles/ second or hertx
Sound frequency
Formula of dB
dB= 20 logP/P0
Human range
20-20,000Hz
Sounds greater than 100 dB can cause damage to the?
Auditory apparatus
Sounds greater than 120 dB can cause
Pain
Human speech
Loudness
65dB
Frequency
300-3,500 Hz
Directs sound waves to the tympanic membrane
External ear
Tympanic membrane
Ossicles
Middle ear
Acoustic impedance of fluid is much greater than?
Air
Serve as impedance matching device
Tympanic membrane
Ossicles
Contraction of the stapedius and tensor tympani muscle
- to protect the cohclea from loud sounds
- to mask low frequency sounds in loud environments
Attenuation reflex
Scala vestibuli and scala tympani contains
Perilymph
Scala media contains
Endolymph
Separates scala vestibuli from scala media
Reissner’ membrane
Site of auditory transduction
Organ of corti
Afferent, tranduces sound energy to electrical energy and transmits to the cochlear nerve
Inner hair cells
Efferent, modulates vibration of tectorial membrane
Outer hair cells
Mechanism of auditory transduction
Sound waves
Vibration of organ of corti
Bending of cilia on hair cells
Change inK conductance of hair cell membrane
Oscillating receptor potential
Intermittent glutamate release
Intermittent action potentials in a afferent cochlear nerves
Frequency that activates a particular hair cell depends on the position of that hair cell along the basilar membrane
Tonotopic map
Auditory pathways
Spiral ganglion of corti Dorsal and ventral nuclei of corti Superior olivary nucleus Lateral lemniscus Inferior colliculus Medial geniculate ganglion Auditory cortex
Projection from the medial geniculate body
Primary auditory cortex
Excited by impulses from primary auditory ortex
Auditory association cortex
Time between entity of sound into one er and its entry into the opposite ear
Interaural time difference
Difference between intensities of sounds in the to ears
Interaural level difference
Impairment of ear to conduct sound itself to theochlea, which is usually called
Conduction deafness
Cause of impairment of cochlea, the auditory nerve, or the central nervous system circuits from the ear, which is usually classified as
Nerve deafness
Sense of balance
Vestibular apparatus
Contains vestibular hair cells
Ampulla
For angular acceleration
Horizontal semicircular canal
For linear acceleration
Maculae
Stereo cilia bent towards the kinocillum
Depolarizes
Increased firing
Stereocillia are bent away kinocillum
Hyperpolarizes
Decreased firing
Vestibular nuclei of the medulla
Vestibular nerve
Receives input from semicircular canals and sends output to nerves innervating extraoccular muscles and medial longitudinal fasciculus
Superior and medial
Receives input from utricles and sends it to the lateral vestibulospinal tract
Lateral
Receives input from semicircular canals, utricle and saccules and sends output to brain stem and cerebellum
Inferior
Eye movements follow by head movements
Vestibulo- ocular reflex
Rhytmic form of reflexive eye movement composed of slow component in one direction interrupted repeatedly by fast saccadic like movement in opposite irection
Nystagmus