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| 8233439100 | Middle ear | The chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing three tiny bones (hammer, anvil, and stirrup) that concentrate the vibrations of the eardrum on the cochlea's oval window. |  | 0 |
| 8233439101 | Inner ear | The innermost part of the ear, containing the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs. |  | 1 |
| 8233439102 | Cochlea | A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear; sound waves traveling through the cochlear fluid trigger nerve impulses. The impulses are sent to the THALUMUS then to the AUDITORY CORTEX of the TEMPORAL LOBE |  | 2 |
| 8233439103 | Sensorineural hearing loss | The most common form of hearing loss, also called NERVE DEAFNESS; caused by damage to the cochlea's receptor cells or to the auditory nerves. Like the roar of jet engines or a loud concert | 3 | |
| 8233439104 | Conduction hearing loss | Less common form of hearing loss caused by damage to the MECHANICAL SYSTEM that conducts sound waves to the cochlea. Ear infection and such. | 4 | |
| 8233439105 | Cochlear implant | A device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea. | 5 | |
| 8233439106 | Place theory | In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated. | 6 | |
| 8233439107 | Frequency theory | In hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch. | 7 | |
| 8233439108 | Nociceptors | Sensory receptors that enable the perception of pain in response to potentially harmful stimuli. |  | 8 |
| 8233439109 | Gate-control theory | The theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain. The "gate" is opened by the activity of pain signals traveling up small nerve fibers and is closed by activity in larger fibers or by information coming from the brain. | 9 | |
| 8233439110 | Kinesthesia | The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts. | 10 | |
| 8233439111 | Vestibular sense | The sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance. Receptor cells for the _____ sense send messages to the cerebellum | 11 | |
| 8233439112 | Sensory interaction | The principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste. | 12 | |
| 8233439113 | Embodied cognition | In psychological science, the influence of bodily sensations, gestures, and other states on cognitive preferences and judgments. | 13 | |
| 8233439114 | Extrasensory perception (ESP) | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input; includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. telepathy: mind-to-mind communication. clairvoyance: perceiving remote events, such as a house on fire in another state. precognition: perceiving future events, such as an unexpected death in the next month. | 14 | |
| 8233439115 | Parapsychology | The study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis. | 15 | |
| 8233439116 | "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target." | Ashleigh Brilliant | 16 | |
| 8233439117 | basilar membrane | The incoming vibrations cause the cochlea's membrane (the oval window) to vibrate, jostling the fluid that fills the tube. This motion causes ripples in the basilar membrane, bending the hair cells lining its surface, not unlike the wind bending a wheat field | 17 | |
| 8233439118 | hair cells | Hair cell movement triggers impulses in the adjacent nerve cells. Axons of those cells converge to form the auditory nerve, which sends neural messages (via the thalamus) to the auditory cortex in the brain's temporal lobe. | 18 | |
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