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How we hear: The Physiology of Sound

Nerve impulses are sent through the brain stem and into the acoustic centres in the cerebral cortex of the opposite temporal lobe. Medial areas are responsible for high frequency recognition and more lateral areas of the coretx are responsible for low frequency recognition.

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