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9.6 Hearing and Equilibrium

9.6 Hearing and Equilibrium. The Ear: Used for hearing and equilibrium The inner ear contains sensory cells for both functions Each hair cells has between 30 and 150 cilia… responding to stiumuli. The ear can be divided into three main sections: 1) The outer ear →The pinna

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9.6 Hearing and Equilibrium

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  1. 9.6 Hearing and Equilibrium The Ear: • Used for hearing and equilibrium • The inner ear contains sensory cells for both functions • Each hair cells has between 30 and 150 cilia… responding to stiumuli

  2. The ear can be divided into three main sections: • 1) The outer ear • →The pinna • →The auditory canal • 2) The middle ear • →Eardrum (or tympanic membrane) • →Ossicles • →Oval window • →Eustachian tube • 3) The inner ear • →Vestibule • →Semicircular canals • →Cochlea

  3. The Outer Ear • The pinna: outer ear flap that collects the sound • The auditory canal: carries the sound to the eardrum and is lined with specialized sweat glands that produce earwax (used to trap foreign particles, preventing them from entering the ear.)

  4. The Middle Ear (Tympanic Membrane) • Air filled chamber that holds the three small bones: the ossicles. • The three ossicles are the malleus (hammer), the incus (anvil) and the stapes (stirrup) • Sound vibrations that strike the eardrum are first concentrated withing the malleus, transmitted to the incus and then the stapes.

  5. Middle Ear • The stapes strikes the membrane covering the oval window in the inner wall of the middle ear. • The oval window amplifies the sound • The Eustachian tube goes from the middle ear to the mouth and the chambers of the nose and helps to equalize pressure. This is also the site that builds up with fluids in an ear infection.

  6. The Inner Ear • The vestibule is connected to the middle ear by the oval window and has two small sacs: the utricle and the saccule. They help establish head position. Anatomy of the Ear - Learning Activity

  7. Inner Ear • There are three semicircular canals that are arranged at different angles that helps identify body movement with the fluid inside them. • The cochlea is shaped like a snail’s shell and contains two rows of specialized hair cells that respond to sound waves of different frequencies and intensities and changes them into nerve impulses.

  8. Hearing and Sound • Sound is a form of energy that must be converted into an electrical impulse before you can interpret it. • Sound must travel through a medium to be heard • Air most commonly, but also water and solids

  9. Hearing and Sound • Sound travels fastest in solids, than liquids, than gases. • Muscles joining the bones of the middle ear protect the inner ear from excessive noise • Loud noises cause these muscles to contract, constricting the malleus, while a second muscle contracts, pulling the stapes away from the oval window.

  10. The oval window receives vibrations from the ossicles and is pushed inwards • The cochlea receives fluid waves and converts them into electrial impulses (sound) BBC Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Nervous System Layer

  11. Organ of Corti • The hearing apparatus in the cochlea • A single inner row, and three outer rows of specialized hair cells • The hair cells are covered in a gelatinous coating • Hair bending sends a message through sensory nerves Effect of Sound Waves on Cochlear Structures

  12. Pitch and Loudness • Identified by the cochlea structure narrowing and hairs getting shorter as it coils • Receptor hair cells on the basilar membrane trigger an action potential that is carried to the brain

  13. Bass • Low frequency waves move to the wider more elastic area of the cochlea to vibrate Animation: Effect of Sound Waves on Cochlear Structures (Quiz 1)

  14. Mechanical Stimulation • The basilar membrane will respond to jarring blows … particularly to the head • The vibrations resonate through the skull, and pass onto the cochlea

  15. Equilibrium Static Equilibrium: • Movement along one plane • Ex. Head position • Head position is monitored by two fluid filled sacs called the saccule and the utricle. Cilia from the hair cells in the sacs are suspended in a gelatinous material that contains small calcium carbonate granules called otoliths. • When the head is in a normal position, ooliths do not move.

  16. Dynamic Equilibrium: • Provides information during movement • While moving, balance is maintained by three fluid-filled semi-circular canals…each of which has a small pocket called an ampulla • Rotational stimuli cause the fluid in these canals to move

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