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  2. Cochlear nerve - Wikipedia

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    The cochlear nerve carries auditory sensory information from the cochlea of the inner ear directly to the brain. The other portion of the vestibulocochlear nerve is the vestibular nerve , which carries spatial orientation information to the brain from the semicircular canals , also known as semicircular ducts.

  3. Auditory system - Wikipedia

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    The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing. It includes both the sensory organs ... many auditory nerve fibers innervate each hair cell.

  4. Vestibulocochlear nerve - Wikipedia

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    The vestibulocochlear nerve or auditory vestibular nerve, also known as the eighth cranial nerve, cranial nerve VIII, or simply CN VIII, is a cranial nerve that transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain.

  5. Hearing - Wikipedia

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    Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. [1] The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory science .

  6. Neural encoding of sound - Wikipedia

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    The release of neurotransmitter at a ribbon synapse, in turn, generates an action potential in the connected auditory-nerve fiber. [7] Hyperpolarization of the hair cell, which occurs when potassium leaves the cell, is also important, as it stops the influx of calcium and therefore stops the fusion of vesicles at the ribbon synapses.

  7. Cochlea - Wikipedia

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    The stereocilia then convert these vibrations into nerve impulses which are taken up to the brain to be interpreted. Two of the three fluid sections are canals and the third is the 'organ of Corti' which detects pressure impulses that travel along the auditory nerve to the brain. The two canals are called the vestibular canal and the tympanic ...

  8. Auditory - Wikipedia

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    Auditory nerve, also known as the cochlear nerve is one of two parts of a cranial nerve; Auditory ossicles, three bones in the middle ear that transmit sounds; Hearing (sense), the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived; Ear, the auditory end organ; Cochlea, the auditory branch of the inner ear; Sound, the physical signal ...

  9. Cochlear nucleus - Wikipedia

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    Auditory nerve fibers, fibers that travel through the auditory nerve (also known as the cochlear nerve or eighth cranial nerve) carry information from the inner ear, the cochlea, on the same side of the head, to the nerve root in the ventral cochlear nucleus. At the nerve root the fibers branch to innervate the ventral cochlear nucleus and the ...