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All about the Sensory System
All about the Sensory System
We use our sensory system all day every day to understand the world around us, but how does it really work?'
Our sensory system is actually made up of a number of separate systems. Each one is specially-designed to absorb a different type of information, which gets translated into electrical signals and sent to the brain for processing, translation and integration.
Here are some of the resources we'll use to understand how that works.
How do we really hear?
How do we really hear?
March 26 and 30, 2020
Hearing and understanding sound are two different things that require a close collaboration between the ears and the brain working together.
We started by looking at the mechanics of the ear itself, and even made a virtual relay race to understand how sound travels from one piece to the next before being translated into electric signals that get conveyed to the brain for processing. Dr. Mattis helped us understand how that process works, and we all shared strategies for how we can block out sounds that we find annoying.
Here are some of the resources we looked at on the human sound system:
Journey of Sound
Journey of Sound
How does sound get from the world around us into our ear, and how do we turn those sound waves into an understanding of what they mean?
The Eardrum
The Eardrum
What does the eardrum really look like, and why does it HURT so much sometimes?
What happens when sound gets past the chochlea, and how is it interpreted in the brain?
Read all about it!
Read all about it!
How does sound reach the brain?
How does sound reach the brain?
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
The Ears and the Brain Work Together to Process Sound
The Ears and the Brain Work Together to Process Sound
The fibers in the auditory nerve criss-cross from right ear to left brain and vice versa. They then go to parts of the brain that are relevant to auditory processing. Different types of sound are processed in different parts of the brain. Music is primarily processed through the right part of the brain, while language is mostly processed through the left part of the brain.
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