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What is the purpose of the cochlear branch of cranial nerve VIII?
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To connect with the Pituitary gland to make sound waves travel to the main cortex of the brain which tranferrs it into sound.
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What is another name for the auditory nerve?
VESTIBULO-COCHLEAR nerve which is 8th cranial nerve.
What crainal nerve involved in listening to music?
Cranial nerve VIII (vestibulocochlear or auditory) is predominantly sensory. The vestibular branch is involved in balance and equilibrium. The cochlear branch is involved in hearing.
What connects the spine to the brain?
Auditory Nerve from cochleaThe eighth cranial nerve, also called as vestibulocochlear nerve, transmits the neural impulse from inner ear to brain.the cochleaThe cochlea.
What cranial nerve is used in listening to music?
The vestibulocochlear nerve or cranial nerve 8 (CN8) is largely involved with listening to music. However the trigeminal nerve (CN5), which innervates the tensor tympani, and the facial nerve (CN7), which innervates the stapedius muscle, may alter the perception of sound and theoretically affect the perception of music.
The greater petrosal nerve is a branch of what cranial nerve?
Facial nerve
Where is the vestibulocochlear nerve situated?
extends from the inner ear to the brain and is made up of a vestibular branch, often called the vestibular nerve, and a cochlear branch, called the cochlear nerve. The vestibular and cochlear nerves lie next to one another
What is the eighth cranial nerve?
Cranial nerve 7 is also referred to as the facial nerve. It has both sensory and motor components. Its sensory portion is responsible for taste on the anterior two thirds of the tongue as well as sensation for a small patch of skin by the ear. Its motor component is responsible for innervating the muscles of facial expression.
What are hair like receptors located in the cochlea?
Organ of Corti; These hair-like projections (microvilli), called cilia and stereocilia, contain endings of the cochlear branch of the 8th cranial nerve.
What is the function of cochlea nerve?
The cochlear nerve (also auditory or acoustic nerve) is a nerve in the head that carries signals from the cochlea of the inner ear to the brain. It is part of the vestibulocochlear nerve, the 8th cranial nerve which is found in higher vertebrates; the other portion of the 8th cranial nerve is the vestibular nerve which carries spatial orientation information from the semicircular canals. The cochlear nerve is a sensory nerve, one which conducts to the brain information about the environment, in this case acoustic energy impinging on the tympanic membrane. The cochlear nerve arises from within the cochlea and extends to the brainstem, where its fibers make contact with the cochlear nucleus, the next stage of neural processing in the auditory system.
What cranial nerve would involve tightrope walking and listening to music?
The Vestibulocochlear nerve is associated with balance and hearing. Vestibulo-balance, cochlear-hearing.
Which parts of the brain receive the impulses from the auditory nerve?
This is accomplished via the cochlear nerve (one of the two branches of the eighth cranial nerve).
The nerve that contains the sensory fibers are involved in hearing?
There are two nerves in the ear. They are the cochlear nerve and the vestibulocochlear nerve. These nerves contain the nerve fibers that arr involved in hearing.
