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1. The Auditory System Neuro Quiz Identify the correct question Click to Play!  Michael McKeough 2008

2. The Auditory SystemNeuro Quiz Click category value to begin.

3. Click to reveal the question Receptor 100 • Components of the auditory system are distributed in these locations. What are the outer, middle and inner ear? Return to Game Board

4. Click to reveal the question Receptor200 • This is the mechanical stimulus that changes the discharge frequency from auditory receptors. What is the bending of a hair cell? Return to Game Board

5. Click to reveal the question Receptor 300 • Auditory receptors are located in this portion of the membranous labyrinth. What is the cochlea? Return to Game Board

6. Click to reveal the question Receptor 400 • This organ houses the auditory receptor. What is the organ of Corti? Return to Game Board

7. Click to reveal the question Receptor 500 • The organ of Corti is located in this cochlear duct. What is the scala media? Return to Game Board

8. Click to reveal the question Physiology 100 • The auricle is designed to achieve this function in the auditory system. What is collect pressure waves from the environment? Return to Game Board

9. Click to reveal the question Physiology 200 • The external auditory meatus is designed to achieve these functions in the auditory system. What are focus and amplify pressure waves from the environment onto the tympanic membrane? Return to Game Board

10. Click to reveal the question Physiology 300 • Pressure waves in the environment are converted into fluid waves inside the inner ear by these structures. Where are the ossicles? Return to Game Board

11. Click to reveal the question Physiology 400 • Fluid waves inside the cochlea cause movement of this structure which in turn causes the bending of hair cells. What is the basilar membrane? Return to Game Board

12. Click to reveal the question Physiology 500 The accuracy of the sound transmitted from the outer ear to the inner ear (fidelity) is regulated by this mechanism. What is variable stiffness of the ossicles regulated by tension in the tensor tympani and stapedius muscles? Return to Game Board

13. Click to reveal the question Central Pathway 100 • The cell bodies of first-order neurons comprise this ganglion. What is the spiral ganglion? Return to Game Board

14. Click to reveal the question Central Pathway 200 • Auditory information travels to the brain via this cranial nerve. What is the vestibulo-cochlear nerve (CN VIII)? Return to Game Board

15. Click to reveal the question Central Pathway 300 • The central pathway of the auditory system is organized as this type of projection system. What is a bilateral projection system? Return to Game Board

16. Click to reveal the question Central Pathway 400 • Auditory information destined for the cortex projects via this thalamic relay. What is the medial geniculate nucleus? Return to Game Board

17. Click to reveal the question Central Pathway 500 The variable stiffness of the basilar membrane is the origin of this type of organization found throughout the central pathway of the auditory system. What is tonotopic organization? Return to Game Board

18. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousI 100 • The primary auditory cortex is located here. What is the superior temporal gyrus on the inferior bank of the lateral fissure? Return to Game Board

19. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousI 200 • The ossicles consist of these three bones. What are the Maleus (hammer), Incus (anvil) and Stapes (stirrup)? Return to Game Board

20. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousI 300 • Pressure waves in the environment cause movement of the ossicles by moving this structure. What is tympanic membrane? Return to Game Board

21. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousI 400 • This flexible membrane helps to prevent the force of propagating fluid waves from damaging the cochlea. What is the round window? Return to Game Board

22. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousI 500 • This is the means by which sound is localized. What is auditory control centers comparing the arrival time of information from the two ears? Return to Game Board

23. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousII100 • This structure captures electromagnetic waves of pressure propagating in the environment. What is the auricle? Return to Game Board

24. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousII200 • These flexible membranes form the boundaries of the middle ear. What are the tympanic membrane and oval window? Return to Game Board

25. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousII300 • This is the arrangement of hair cells in the organ of Corti. What is inner and outer? Return to Game Board

26. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousII400 Damage to the structures of the external or middle ear may result in this type of deafness. What is conduction deafness? Return to Game Board

27. Click to reveal the question MiscellaneousII500 • Damage to the structures of the inner ear (organ of Corti or the cochlear nerve) may result in this type of deafness. What is nerve (sensorineural) deafness? Return to Game Board