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How does the cochlea on the ear work?
The cochlea is a spiral-shaped organ in the inner ear filled with fluid. When sound waves enter the ear, they cause the fluid in the cochlea to move, stimulating hair cells. These hair cells convert the movement into electrical signals that are sent to the brain via the auditory nerve, where they are processed as sound.
How does the cochlea detect different sound frequencies?
The cochlea detects different sound frequencies through the activation of hair cells sensitive to specific frequencies along its spiral structure. As sound waves travel through the cochlea, they cause different regions of the basilar membrane to vibrate depending on the frequency. This vibration is then translated into neural signals that the brain interprets as different pitches or frequencies.
What role does the cochlea play in hearing?
The cochlea is a spiral-shaped structure in the inner ear that contains hair cells responsible for translating sound vibrations into electrical signals that can be sent to the brain. It plays a crucial role in converting sound waves into neural impulses that the brain can interpret as different pitches and volumes.
Explain how cochlea allow us to hear both low frequency and high frequency sound?
The basilar membrane within the cochlea is responsible for detecting different frequencies of sound. High frequency sounds cause vibrations near the base of the spiral-shaped cochlea, while low frequency sounds cause vibrations near the apex. This allows the brain to interpret different frequencies based on where the vibrations occur along the basilar membrane.
Hearing receptors are located in the?
In the inner ear, is a spiral organ called the cochlea, and this liquid filled organ is tapered and along its length are a large number of small sensory hairs. These small hairs cause a signal to be generated in the cell supporting the hair and this we interpret as sound.
What shape is the cochlea in your ear?
The cochlea is shaped in a spiral, kind of like a snail shell.
What is the shape of a cochlea?
It is spiral shaped like a snail
What is the name of spiral shaped mollusk?
cochlea
What part of the inner ear is spiral shaped?
The cochlea is the spiral-shaped part of the inner ear responsible for hearing. It is filled with fluid and contains hair cells that convert sound vibrations into electrical signals sent to the brain for interpretation.
How is the cochlea adapted to its function?
The cochlea is adapted to its function of hearing through its spiral shape and specialized inner structure. It contains hair cells that convert sound vibrations into electrical signals, which are then transmitted to the brain via the auditory nerve. The cochlea's organization allows for the detection and processing of different frequencies of sound.
What is the name of the spiral containing liquid in the inner ear?
the cochlea. it contains a liquid that helps your balance.
What shape does an spiral galaxy have?
First of all, it's a spiral galaxy, not an spiral galaxy. Second, a spiral galaxy would have a spiral shape, obviously.
What part of the ear contains the cochlea?
The inner ear.
What shape describes some bacterial cell?
Spiral
In your ear a part that looks like a coiled tube is the?
cochlea
Term spiral refers to the shape of?
spiral galaxy
What the function of the cochlea?
houses the spiral organ of corti which is the receptor organ for hearing.it sends electrial impulses to the brain
