PSYC 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Missing Fundamental, Pear-Shaped, Earwax
28 Apr 2017
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Corti: stereocilia- small hair-like projections on the tops of inner and outer hair cells. 3: auditory nerve- the nerve that conveys signals from the hair cells in the organ of. Most significant contributor to this is a life-long exposure to noise, other factors include exposure to certain industrial chemicals, smoking and alcohol abuse, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, head trauma, and poor nutrition. Might also be a genetic component: cochlear implants- devices designed mainly to enable deaf individuals to hear spoken language; have both external and internal components. Summary: sound, sound is a wave of pressure changes in a medium such as air, propagating outward from a source. 5,000hz: temporal coding works best for lower frequencies. 5: the horizontal line labeled (cid:498)normal air pressure(cid:499) marks the air, one cycle of the sound wave is a repeating segment of air pressure pressure in the absence of sound.
