Hearing, touch, & taste

Module 20

Audition

Sense of hearing

Amplitude

Frequency

Outer ear

Middle ear

Hammer

Anvil

Stirrup

Oval window

Where the stirrup connects

Cochlea

Coiled, body, fluid filled tube in the inner ear through which

Basilar membrane

Inner ear

Eardrum

Tight membrane that vibrates when

Conduction hearing loss

Sensorineural hearing loss

Cochlea implant

Place theory

The pitch we near with

Frequency theory

Rate of nerve impulses traveling up auditory nerve matches

Stereophonic hearing

Localization of sounds

Locating where a sound is coming from based on intensity& speed

Types of touch

Pressure, warmth, cold, pain

Noiceptors

Gate-control theory

Endorphins

Phantom limb sensations

Tinnitus

Olfaction

Sense of smell