I Hear You

As the sound waves progress down the auditory canal they travel into a new region of the ear called the middle ear.

Hearing, something most of us take for granite each day. If we knew how delicate of a mechanism our hearing was then we would probably no be so quick to risk injury of our ears. The middle ear serves the ear as being an amplifier. Depending on the type of frequency caused by the pressure wave, the human ear will pick up as a different pitches. These tiny bones (all of which can fit in your index finger transmit vibrations between the eardrum and inner ear. Within your inner ear vibrations of different frequencies are "sorted out" as they stimulate different patches of receptors, which send that information to the big cheese, the brain. different wavelength, come from different vibrating objects. As these bones jump in jive they move fluid in the inner ear, which stimulates the hearing receptors. You never know how much you depend on something until it’s gone. This region of the inner ear consists of two parts. It takes a sound wave from a relatively large serface of the eardrum to a smaller area and amplifies it many times greater than the pressure that sound waves exert on the eardrums.

The next region we come to is the inner ear, the inner ear houses several structures, including semicircular canals, which are involved in balance, and the coiled cochlea involved in hearing.