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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.

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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.