Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain: Chapter 11 (With A+ Graded solutions)

Intensity correct answers difference in pressure between compressed and rareified patches of air. Pinna correct answers visible part of the ear Auditory canal correct answers entrance to internal ear. Tympanic Membrane correct answers where the auditory canal is. aka eardrum. Ossicles correct answers connected to medial surface of tympanic membrane. series of bones. transfer movements of the tympanic membrane into movemets of oval window. Oval Window correct answers hole in the bone of the skull Cochlea correct answers behind oval window. contains apparatus for turning the phys motion of the oval window membrane into a neuronal response. Outer ear correct answers structures from pinna to tympanic membrane Middle Ear correct answers tympanic membrane and ossicles Inner Ear correct answers apparatus medial to the oval window Medial Geniculate Nucleus correct answers output from nuclei in the brain stem sent here. located in the thalamus. Primary Auditory Cortex/a1 correct answers mgn projects here. located in temporal lobe. Malleus correct answers ossicle attached to tympanic membrane. incus correct answers rigid connection with malleus Stapes correct answers flexible connection with the incus Footplate correct answers moves in and out like a piston at the oval window, thus transmitting sound vibrations to the fluids of the cochlea. Eustachian Tube correct answers connects air in middle ear with nasal cavity. usually closed by a valve.. Tensor Tympani Muscle correct answers anchored to bone in the cavity of the middle ear at one end and attaches to the malleus at the other end.