The auditory system is the sensory system for hearing. It consists of the outer ear (the auricle and auditory canal), the middle ear (the tympanic membrane, malleus, incus and stapes), the inner ...

The auditory system provides an ideal model with which to address these questions, primarily because it involves a highly ordered array of a very small number of sensory cells with well-defined ...

Hearing plays a role in a person’s quality of life. When their hearing fails, they cannot live a connected life. People use ...

The illustration represents how sounds are encoded in the cerebral cortex, with neurons (at right) using "echoing" activity to track auditory stimuli to change and improve the brain's predictions of ...

The nervous system's auditory signals are timed so precisely that researchers have long suspected that timing is important to our perception of sound. Sound waves oscillate at rates that determine ...

If a breakdown occurs anywhere along this pathway, it is referred to as a conductive hearing loss. Certain types of ...

A brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER ... A BAER test can help healthcare professionals diagnose hearing loss and nervous system disorders, especially in newborns, young children, and ...