What is the path sound travels through the ear to the auditory nerve?

Answer 1

The auditory system is essentially the entire pathway sound has to take. The peripheral auditory system takes the sound and translates it into the electrical processes that the brain can interpret. Then these signals get sent through the central auditory system.

Answer 2

The Path the Sound TakesFirst the sound enters into the outer ear through the ear canal and then hit its the ear drum, vibrations pass from the hammer then to the anvil then to the stirrup, then the vibrations go to the cochlea and cause nerve cells to send signals to the cerebrum though the Auditory Nerve.

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The ear is to receive sound vibrations. there are 3 major regions of the ear the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The outer ear is shaped like a funnel. The "funnel" is the gather the sound waves the sound vibration's (same as sound waves) travel down the ear canal (which is part of outer ear) when the sound vibrations hit the ear drum (they have left the outer ear and now are entering the middle ear) then they goes on to the middle ear which contain the three smallest bones in the body the Hammer, Anvil and Stirrup. They are named for their shapes. Te ear drum makes the Hammer vibrate the Hammer makes the Anvil and the Anvil makes the Stirrup vibrate. the Stirrup is connected to a thin membrane that covers the opening of the inner ear then that membrane channels the vibrations to a snail shaped tube lined with receptor cells this is called Cochlea when this vibrates sensory neurons then send the nerve impulse to the cerebrum though the Auditory Nerve, this is interpreted into sounds!

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Answer 3

Nerve impulses are triggered in the cochlea, down the auditory nerve, into the thalamus, and to the temporal lobe.