Biology / Unit 12 Bio 2915 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Tracing a Sound Wave From Air to Auditory Cortex, Worked
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This procedure traces a sound wave's path from the outer ear through transduction to cortical processing, drawing on this chapter's hearing atoms.
Where people slip
Treating the ear as one single transducer is the error here — mechanical amplification, place-coded frequency separation, and hair-cell transduction are distinct steps, each of which can fail independently and produce a different kind of hearing loss.
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