Deck 10: Essay

Question 1

What is a cochlear implant and how does it work?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How are blind humans able to use echolocation to identify objects? Which brain regions are involved?

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

What are the three main physical properties of sound waves and how do they influence auditory perception?

Answer 3

no answer

Question 4

How do humans localize the source of high-frequency and low-frequency sounds in the environment? Which brain regions are involved?

Question 5

Frequency and amplitude are equivalent to what properties in sound perception?

Question 6

What speech area did Penfield map in the human brain? How are these regions influenced by electrical stimulation?

Question 7

Differentiate between the roles of the outer and inner hair cells in the ear.

Question 8

What is the difference between the tectorial membrane and the basilar membrane?

Question 9

What is prosody and what brain regions control it?

Question 10

What is the difference between Heschl's gyrus and the planum temporale?

Question 11

What is a complex tone? How are complex tones analyzed?

Question 12

List the variables that affect birdsong.

Question 13

Where on the cortex is Wernicke's area?

Question 14

What decibel (dB)levels are safe for human hearing? What decibel levels can cause hearing damage?

Question 15

Compare and contrast the deficits that arise in Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia.Which brain regions are affected?

Question 16

Define perfect pitch.What is its probable origin?

Question 17

Which brain regions are involved in music perception?

Question 18

Differentiate between the dorsal and ventral streams of auditory processing.

Question 19

Differentiate between receptive aphasia and expressive aphasia.

Question 20

List the structures in the auditory pathway in the correct order from cochlea to cortex.

Question 21

How do bats use echolocation to navigate?

Question 22

Which two brain areas are most important for birdsong and what roles do they play?