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Yes. This nerve has got very important role to play with your balance.

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What nerves combine to form the auditory nerve?

The auditory nerve is formed by the cochlear nerve and the vestibular nerve. The cochlear nerve is responsible for transmitting auditory information from the cochlea to the brain, while the vestibular nerve is responsible for transmitting information related to balance and spatial orientation.


What type of nerve is the auditory nerve?

In the inner ear, "sound" is translated into electrical energy. This electrical energy is transmitted to the brain via the 8th cranial nerve more commonly called the auditory, acoustic or vestibulocochlear nerve. The brain receives the information and translates it into what we "hear", or at least into what is most important for us to hear at that time.


Another name for auditory nerve?

The auditory nerve is associated with facial nerve. Both of them exits the skull through the internal acoustic meatus. The facial nerve leaves the skull through stylomastoid foramen to go to the face. This nerve is also associated with the sense of hearing and balance.


How do auditory pathways carry nerve impulses to auditory cortices?

the auditory nerve pathways carry impulses to the auditory cortices in the ?


What nerve is also known as the acoustic or auditory nerve?

The 8th Cranial nerve has a lot of common names, but it always begins in the inner ear and ends in the brain.Here are names for the same nerve from different texts:Acoustic nerveAuditory nerveCochlear nerveAuditory vestibular nerveVestibulocochlear nerve is the preferred name8th Cranial Nerve


What nerves carries messages of sound to the brain?

The auditory nerve, also known as the vestibulocochlear nerve, carries messages of sound from the inner ear to the brainstem and then to the brain where sound is processed and interpreted.


What carries the nerve impulses to the auditory cortex of the brain where they will be perceived sound?

The Auditory Nerve does this.


Which part of the human ear contains the auditory nerve?

The cochlea is the part of the human that contains the auditory nerve


What cranial nerve controls the ears?

auditory nerve


What carry the impulses from the ear to the brain?

The impulses from the ear are carried to the brain by the auditory nerve, also known as the eighth cranial nerve or vestibulocochlear nerve. This nerve is responsible for transmitting sound and balance information from the inner ear to the brainstem.


Where is your auditory nerve?

In the neck


What is main term of auditory neuritis?

The main symptom of auditory neuritis is sudden hearing loss in one ear, which may be accompanied by ringing in the ear (tinnitus), dizziness, or problems with balance. It can be caused by inflammation of the auditory nerve or damage to the cochlea.