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How we hear: The Physiology of Sound

The Hearing Aid Advice Centre is based in Livingston, Scotland and provides help to those with hearing difficulties throughout the East coast of Scotland.

perilymph

Movement of the stapes in the oval window produces compression waves within the perilymph. Read more

vibrations

These vibrations are translated by hair cells in the organ of corti into nerve impulses and sent via the cochlear nerve to the brain. Read more

acoustic centres in the cerebral cortex

Nerve impluses are sent through the brain stem and into the acoustic centres in the cerebral cortex of the opposite temporal lobe. Read more

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