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Outer hair cells have the following functions/characteristics.

The posterior canal detects ___________________.

Which of these would be mostly effected by stiffness change of the vocal folds?

Voice pitch information would be primarily determined by:

What test can assist us in determining a potential dead region?

You receive a new patient and read on his chart from his previous audiologist that he has a speech-in-noise threshold of 0 dB, as measured by the Hearing-in-Noise Test (HINT). What does this mean?

The vestibulocochlear nerve or the eighth cranial nerve, send __________ and __________ information from the inner ear to the brain.

The auditory cortex is located in the _________ of the brain.

In digital signal processing, there are properties that determine how precisely it can represent an acoustic signal. ____________ determines the highest acoustic frequency which can be represented.

_________________ consists of dense grains of calcium carbonate located in the macula. Whatever the position of your head, gravity pulls on these grains, which then move the stereocilia to signal your head’s position to your brain.