How does the message from the ear get to the brain?

Answer 1

The sound waves in air entering the ear strike the ear drum (the 'tympanum') and cause it to vibrate. Those mechanical vibrations transfer through a chain of three tiny bones (the 'hammer', 'anvil', and 'stirrup') behind the ear drum, and the vibrations finally transfer to the 'cochlea' ... a closed tube, wound in a spiral, full of liquid, and lined with tiny hairs on the inside of its walls. The liquid in the cochlea picks up the vibrations, and they run up and down the inside of the tube until they die out. During that time, they run past the tiny hairs, and each of those is the end of a nerve. So when the tiny hair vibrates, a tiny signal is generated in the nerve, and that's the signal that finally flows to the brain.

Answer 2

Sound waves falls on ear drum. It vibrates due to sound waves. To which three smallest bones are attached. They areMale-us, Incus and stapes. Stapes is attached to oval window. Sound is greatly amplified and vibrates the oval window. Vibrations of fluids aretransferredto round window via cochlea. In which very fine hair cells of 'different' lengths are situated. According to the frequency of sound waves, different hair cells vibrates. Very fine nerve fibers situated below the hair cells get stimulated. This impulses passes via eighths cranial nerve passes to Vestibular center to brain. Two ears gives the effect of stereoscopic sound as sound reaches to them at slightly different time. Now how 100's of different sounds pass through the same ear drum and same tiny bones and same oval window at a time is difficult to explain and difficult to understand.(Same telephonic wire conduct so many different sounds at the same time like orchestra.)

Answer 3

Sound waves are captured by the outer ear and then travel through the ear canal to the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. These vibrations are passed through the middle ear bones (ossicles) to the cochlea in the inner ear. The cochlea converts the vibrations into electrical signals, which are sent via the auditory nerve to the brain for processing and interpretation.

Answer 4

Sound travels to your brain through 'sound waves' and vibrations from the atoms

Answer 5

The nerve called the vestibulocochlear nerve carries signals from the ear to the brain.

Answer 6

The sound doesn't travel; what travels to your brain are nerve signals, that encode the sound.

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Answer 7

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