audition
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lecture schedule)
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Lecture Notes |
Study Guide |
Lab Handout | Optional Readings | Media |
| Study Questions for audition & other senses. | Audition Lab | Tinnitus, by Jerome Groopman, New Yorker | Music and the brain (radio, 60 mins) PRI, Dana Foundation | |
| Sound localization by owls |
USEFUL LINKS
How high a frequency can you hear?
Auditory illusions
-Neat animation showing basilar membrane oscillations for different pitches
-Animation showing the mechanosensory transduction of hair cells (it shows a fish but our ears work the same way with sound waves causing the vibration)
- Playing Doctor: Learn how to do an ear exam and how to use an otoscope (the latter link shows good picts of ear infections)
- Other animations
- The National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has very reliable information, including topics such as American Sign Language, as well as cochlear implants. -About American Sign Language
-Cochlear Implants: Information from NIDCD and from the Cochlear Implant Program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia .