Hearing

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Across
  1. 3. a tight membrane that vibrates with the waves
  2. 5. a mechanism that converts sounds into electrical signals, stimulating the auditory nerves through electrodes in the cochlea
  3. 7. hearing loss hearing loss brought on buy have damaged your mechanical system directing sound waves to the cochlea
  4. 8. hammer,anvil,and stirrup
  5. 9. theory the theory that how fast the nerve impulses travel up the auditory nerve mimics the frequency of the tone, giving us the ability to sense its pitch
  6. 11. funnels the sound waves into the ear
  7. 12. a tone's highness or lowness that is dependent on the frequency
  8. 13. connects the stirrup to the cochlea
Down
  1. 1. sends neural messages to the temporal lobe's auditory cortex
  2. 2. hearing loss resulting from aging and prolonged exposer to loud sounds
  3. 4. measurement of sound
  4. 6. Theory that presumes we hear different pitches based off the vibrations of the cochlea's membrane
  5. 10. snail shaped tube in the inner ear