Taste, hearing and touch Flashcards
what do you call movements of air?
sound waves
what do you call the hair cells of the cochlea?
Transducers
what do you call something that has to do with the amplitude of a sound wave or air pressure?
Loudness
what do you call a frequency of a wave?
Pitch
what happens to pitch when frequency increases?
the pitch increases
what happens to frequency of pitch decreases
frequency decreases
what is located in the outer ear that is visible?
Pinna
What is part of the outer ear that is a tube that helps to amplify in a region?
Canal
what is the ear drum that separates the outer ear from the middle ear?
Tympanic membrane
what is part of the middle ear that is the primary function to transmit vibrations from the tympanic membrane the 3 smallest bones?
Malleus, Incus, stapes
what is part of the inner ear that is in the shape of a snail shell that transduces mechanical vibrations into neural signals
Cochlea
In the cochlea what vibrates to push on the hair cells?
Tectorial membrane
in the cochlea from the vibrations of the membrane that creates an action poetical?
Hair cells
in the auditory brain what recognizes different tones?
The Primary Auitory cortex (A1)
in the auditory brain what understands languages?
Wernicke area
what is the steam that locates were a sound is coming from?
spatial
what is the stem that identifies a sound?
Non spatial
in the place code where does the low frequency fire?
Apex
in the place code where are high frequencies fired?
At the Base
What does the temporal code pick apart?
Low frequency
what is an electrical device that replaces the function of hair cells that may help with hearing loss and language development?
Cochlear implant
what is an olfactory response?
Chemical
what reaction is taste?
Chemical
what are taste buds on the surface of the tongue
chemoreceptors
