The cochlea is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as an ...

When sound waves hit the eardrum, they cause the eardrum to vibrate. This vibration travels through several very small bones in the inner ear that connect to the cochlea. The vibration of these bones ...

The cochlea is part of the inner ear and consists of a snail-shaped structure containing three fluid-filled cavities – one of which, the scala media cavity, contains the organ of corti.

These vibrations are transferred to three small bones inside your middle ear and then to your cochlea, which is shaped like a snail shell and filled with fluid. Inside the cochlea, the moving ...

Before cochlear implant surgery, you may want to know what to expect in terms of hearing improvement. Learn how surgery works ...

But whether it's the sound of chickens or my beautiful voice, it all enters your ear through the cochlea, a shell-like structure in the inner ear. Inside the cochlea there are over 16,000 hairlike ...

The cochlea is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as an ...