Physio Psych Audition, the Body and Chemical Senses

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The case of Sara in the opening vignette makes what point?
Pain is a valuable source of information to the body
The physical quality of amplitude does not go with what perceptual feature?
Pitch
The loudness of a sound is related to what?
The amplitude of sound vibration
The eye is considered to be what kind of organ?
Synthetic
What is the cochlea?
Inner ear
What is the mechanical stimulus that induces movements of the hair cells?
Movement of the stapes against the oval window
Deafness caused by blockage of the what can be treated by what?
Round window; by drilling a hole to create a round window
The force that causes the tips of the hair cells to bend in responses to movement of the basilar membrane arises from the what?
Movement of fluid past the tips of the hair cells
What determines whether ion channels open or close within the hair cell cilia?
Tension exerted by the tip links on the insertional plaques
Damage to the inner hair cells does what?
Impairs hearing
Adjacent regions of the basilar membranes and adjacent regions of hte primary auditory cortex appear to respond best to different sound what? This can be displayed in what kind of map?
Sound frequencies; a tonotopic map
The ventral auditory stream terminates in what and is involved with what function?
Parabelt region of the anterior temporal region; complex sound analysis
What strongly supports the notion that a place code is involved in detecting medium to high pitch sounds?
Antibiotics can degenerate hair cells in a basal to apical direction and produce corresponding deficits to pitch perception
What is true of rate coding along the basilar membrane?
Frequencies lower than 200 hertz are coded by a rate of firing that is cued to the movement of the apical end of the basilar membrane
What sound source can be easily detected?
A sound source that is located directly in front of a person