Primary auditory cortex

becoming a hearing screening and further my interest in audiology. Firstly, as a Newborn Hearing Screener, I perform newborn hearing test on newborns within the first 24 to 48 hours of birth. The test procedure that is used is an Automated ABR (Auditory Brainstem Response) that measures the brain nerve responds to sound. A click sound…

Ear surgery, also called otoplasty, helps to improve the shape, position or proportion of the ear. Otoplasty also corrects any defects in the structure of the ear that can be from a birth defect, happen during the body’s development, or from an injury. Ear surgery creates a more natural-looking appearance to the shape of the ear, while improving the balance and proportion of the ears in relationship to the face. Even minor deformities, when reshaped, can have deep-seated, positive bene?ts to…

Hearing loss in teenagers is up 30 percent from the 1980s and 1990s. While in-ear headphones were first introduced in the 1980s, they didn’t become widely popular until the early 2000s when the iPod came out. “Many experts believe it [increased percent of hearing loss] is due... to the increased use in headphones” (American Osteopathic Association). This is a plausible explanation seeing as music seems to be more available and used more often. Hearing loss due to exposure is a growing concern.…

There are unique auditory processes that are very important to help the listener deal with simultaneous, often competing audio signals or sources such as competing speakers or musical instruments/instrumental sections within an orchestra. To be able to distinguish the individual sounds and more importantly, the individual superimposed vibrations travelling to the listener, the auditory system, and the architecturally designed environments, have specific methods that allow the listeners ears to…

speaker, Deanna Marincic, shared pictures of herself and her brother growing up and to the point of his passing to make the problem more real to people who have not under gone the pain involved with being close to a person with a drug addiction. Auditory Learning Style: The speakers presented themselves as authorities on these subjects so there was a lot of time spent on lectures. The words carrying assumed weight they spoke out of their various expertise. There was also a short advertisement…

Seismic communication is more beneficial to use than airborne communication when airborne circumstances are not fitting to the atmospheric conditions of the environment (O’Connell-Rodwell 2007). Elephants have the largest cerebral cortex of all terrestrial animals, so they can process subtle signals from incoming sound. Vibrational signal energy is most dependent on the muscular size of the one producing the sound, and seismic cues are formed through acoustic waves when percussed…

Aural Atresia is not very common but is a subject that is undergoing intense study. Atresia is a congenital disease that is found in one in 10,000 births. Out of all born with Atresia, one-third has it bilaterally. People with Atresia normally have a conductive hearing loss and a deformed pinna. If the conductive hearing loss is not dealt with early on in a child’s life it often causes speech delays. Along with speech delays, a child with a malformed pinna is harder to be socially accepted.…

perfectly fitted in. Then I plugged the other, and did the same to it. That was what the doctor asked me to do. I walked into the classroom, sit down, opened my music folder. The sponges soon expanded, filling up every minute space in my external auditory canal, almost strong enough to make my ears explode. The instruments’ sound volume was then turned down; less music flew into my ears. The earplugs, as though the physical…

learning styles. There are many different types of styles but three in particular stand out the most; visual, kinesthetic, and auditory. Visual learners use images to help them learn. They better remember by seeing rather than hearing. For example a visual learning student would rather read a book rather than hearing a teacher read it out loud. Which is opposite of an auditory…

All of my life I have been involved in a sport or physical activity. The similarity between the sports I have learned to play and the way I was taught to learn in school are very much the same. I grew up playing softball and volleyball, which are both very detailed sports to play. With all different positions, regulations, and rules it is very much important to pay close attention while being taught how to play. It would have never been easy to learn the techniques by only watching a volleyball…