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TEMPORAL BONE
The Outer Ear Consists of:
Impedance Matching
Filtering
Acoustic Reflex
These sounds get through
the middle ear most
readily
INNER
EAR
Two Halves:
Vestibular--transduces motion and pull of gravity
Cochlear--transduces sound energy
INFERIOR COLLICULUS
LATERAL LEMNISCUS
COCHLEAR NUCLEUS
Mid-Saggital View of Brain
Corpus 4th Ventricle
Callosum
Cerebellum
Thalamus Pons
Cortical Processing
Pattern Recognition
Duration Discrimination
Localization of Sounds
Selective Attention
Cerebral Dominance/Laterality
Language Processing in the left hemisphere.
(Remember the right ear has the strongest
connections to the left hemisphere)