How Does Your Ear Receive Sound?
The vibrations passed on by the air particles reach your ear, and go through a series of steps to reach your brain, where they are converted into the noise we are familiar with. Lets have a look at these steps...
1) The Pinna – outer ear – collects the sound vibrations
2) The Ear Canal funnels the sound vibrations towards the Ear Drum
3) The Ear Drum is then made to vibrate by the sound vibrations.
4) The Anvil, Hammer and Stirrup pass on the vibrations from the vibrating Ear Drum to the Cochlea.
5) The Cochlea – snail shaped spiral – translates the vibrations into electrical signals that the brain can recognise by the cilia (hairs that translate different frequency and amplitude sounds into electronic signals)
6) The Auditory Nerve passes on the electrical signals to the brain from the Cochlea.
The Brain recognises these signals and translates them to the music we hear.
1) The Pinna – outer ear – collects the sound vibrations
2) The Ear Canal funnels the sound vibrations towards the Ear Drum
3) The Ear Drum is then made to vibrate by the sound vibrations.
4) The Anvil, Hammer and Stirrup pass on the vibrations from the vibrating Ear Drum to the Cochlea.
5) The Cochlea – snail shaped spiral – translates the vibrations into electrical signals that the brain can recognise by the cilia (hairs that translate different frequency and amplitude sounds into electronic signals)
6) The Auditory Nerve passes on the electrical signals to the brain from the Cochlea.
The Brain recognises these signals and translates them to the music we hear.
FUN FACT:
The Semi-circular Canals are three tubes filled with fluid in different directions that help you balance!
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