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Cross section of the cochlea.

The basilar membrane within the Cross section of the cochlea. Named after the Latin word for snail shell, the cochlea is a coiled, tapered tube inside the mammalian inner ear, responsible for transmitting sound to the auditory nerve. Georg von Békésy won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1961 for his... cochlea of the For an alternative meaning, see ear (botany). A right human ear. An ear is an organ used by an animal to detect sound. The term may refer to the entire system responsible for collection and early processing of sound (the beginning of the auditory system), or merely the externally-visible... inner ear is the part of the The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing. The cochlea inside the ear transduces sound waves into action potentials. This information travels up the auditory nerve through parts of the thalamus and brainstem to auditory areas of the brain. In the human brain, the primary auditory... auditory system that decomposes incoming auditory signals into their frequency components. This allows higher neural processing of This article is about compression waves. For other meanings, see sound (disambiguation). For information on using or contributing sound files to Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Sound. A schematic representation of auditory signaling Sound is a series of mechanical compressions and rarefactions or longitudinal waves that succesively pass one into another and... sound information to focus on the In mathematics, physics and signal processing, the frequency spectrum shows the decomposition of a function, or wave, or signal, into its frequency components (the sinusoidal basis functions of the Fourier series). It can be found from the result of a Fourier-related transform. If the power spectrum gives information about... frequency spectrum of input, rather than just the Time-domain is a term used to describe the analysis of mathematical functions, or real-life signals, with respect to time. In the time-domain, the signal or functions value is known at various discrete time points; or for all real numbers, for the case of continuous time. is... time domain waveform.

In brief, the membrane is tapered and is stiffer at one end than the other. This causes sound input of a certain frequency to vibrate a particular location of the membrane more than other locations due to the physical property of This article is about resonance in physics. For other uses, see Resonance (disambiguation). In physics, resonance is an increase in the oscillatory energy absorbed by a system when the frequency of the oscillations matches the systems natural frequency of vibration (its resonant frequency). Examples are the acoustic resonances of... resonance. As shown in experiments by Nobel Prize laureate Békésy won a Nobel Prize in 1961 for his research on the workings of the inner ear. Georg von Békésy ( June 3, 1899 - June 13, 1972) was a biophysicist. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for... Georg von Békésy, high frequencies will lead to vibrations at the narrow, basal end of the membrane, low frequencies will lead to vibrations at the wide, apical end of the membrane. The localized vibration of the basilar membrane is then transduced into neural signals by the inner Hair cells are the sensory cells of the auditory system that are found within the cochleas organ of Corti. They derive their name from the tufts of stereocilia which protrude from the apical surface of the cell. Mammalian hair cells come in two functionally distinct types -- the outer and... hair cells of the Categories: Stub | Auditory system ... Organ of Corti, which sits on top of the basilar membrane. The hair cells above the most resonating segment of the membrane will fire the most signals, thus the neural code leaving the ear through the The auditory nerve is the nerve along which the sensory cells (the hair cells) of the inner ear transmit information to the brain. It consists of the cochlear nerve, carrying information about hearing, and the vestibular nerve, carrying information about balance. The auditory nerve is also known as the acoustic... auditory nerve is frequency coded.