• Ossicles: Malleus, Incus, Stapes (MIS)
  • Oval window transmits the waves, round window releases them
  • Hair cells sit on basilar membrane with tips embedded on tectorial membrane

Bilateral - to compared timing and loudness

  • Low pitch information projects to anteroLateral part of primary auditory cortex

  • Expressive speech (Broca’s area) - motor production of words

  • Receptive speech (Wernicke’s area) - sensory, understanding