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Receptors in the ear that translate sound waves into nerve impulses are?
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Which part of the inner ear changes sound waves into electrical impulses?
None - except as an artifact. The nerve cells (auditory nerve) carry the signal chemically and produce electrical signals as a side effect of ion flows. Your brain ignores the electrical signal but responds to neuro-transmitters released by the nerve cells at synapses.
What does Cochlea mean?
It is a part inside your ear it is orange in color and tastes like chicken...rotisserie chicken.
How do sensory systems work?
well, sight works when the lens focuses light onto the retina where different colours are applied along the optic nerve where the image is flipped the right way up by the cerrablellum. you hear things when the vibrations that make up sound vibrate your eardrum which is connected to the cochlea which houses nerve ending to translate the vibrations back into sound. taste works when bits of food dissolved in saliva come into contact with taste bits that make up a profile of the taste and send it to the brain. smell works when tiny particles in the air reach the smell receptors. touch works when the nervous system contains nerves which send profiles of textures to the cerebral cortex.
How the sound travels inside the ear?
Sound waves enter through the outer ear, then sound waves move through the ear canal. Next sound waves strike the eardrum, causing it to vibrate, then vibrations enter the middle ear. Then the hammer picks up the vibrations, then vibrations are passed to the anvil. Next the vibrations are transmitted to the stirrup, then a vibrating membrane transmits vibrations to the inner ear, and then vibrations are channeled into the cochlea. Then nerve cells detect vibrations and convert them to electrical impulses, then electrical impulses are transmitted to the brain. Then the brain interprets electrical impulses as sound.
How does sound travel through gas?
Sound travels by sound waves. Sound waves are vibrations of the gas particles which result in repeated squeezings/pullings away of the gas molecules. We usually say compressions and rarefactions. If you are in the presence of sound waves, they will enter your ears and make your eardrum move in and out very slightly. This movement is carried to the auditory nerve by tiny bones in your inner ear. The auditory nerves carry the tiny electrical impulses that the brain then deciphers as sound. The most common example of sound traveling through a gas is always around us, and that 'gas' is air. (really a number of gases mixed together.) This is why you cannot hear sounds in outer space . . . there IS no gas or anything else to carry sound waves.
Where are the structures for connecting sound waves to nerve impulses located?
It is in the inner ear that we find the structures that translate the mechanical energy of sound into nerve impulses.
In the cochlea?
Sound vibrations are converted to nerve impulses :)
What carries the nerve impulses to the auditory cortex of the brain where they will be perceived sound?
The Auditory Nerve does this.
What transmits sound from the inner ear to the brain?
Nerves in the ear respond to the mechanical stress of soundwaves and transmit the stress/sound accoundingly (super simplified answer)
What contains receptors that convert sound vibrations to impulses that are sent to the brain?
The cocheal contains receptor cells that convert sound vibrations into impulses that are sent to the brain.
How does sound travel to your brains?
the sound wave vibrate the cochlea in your ear (a small snail like organ in your ear) the fluid inside it shake touching receptors your brain takes the vibrations and and relays the info
What is the auditory receptors where sound waves finally become neural impulses?
basilar membranes
What Sound vibration are converted into nerve impulses in the?
Cochlea apex
Which nerves carry sound impulses from the inner ear of the brain?
The auditory nerve carries auditory impulses to the brain.
What is the peripheral nevorus system?
It is located outside of the central nervous system and consists of nerves and sensory receptors, it carries impulses formed by receptors, such as pain and sound receptors, to the CNS and it carries impulses from the CNS to effectors, glands and muscles that carry out actions directed by the CNS
Pass through the cochlea and are transformed into nerve impulses and sent to the brain?
sound waves
Does the cochlea in the inner ear transform sound impressions into the nerve impulses?
yes. yes it does!
