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Hearing
Why Music Can Give You Goosebumps
Beautiful music doesn’t cause goosebumps — dangerous music does. At least, that’s what your brain thinks.
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Holding the Inner Ear Together
Deiter’s cells stabilize the inner ear’s hair cells with crossbeam-like support.
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How Ear Hairs Stick Together
Stereocilia connect one row to the next to sway together for sound.
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How We Experience Our World
Sense organs are the brain’s windows to the outside world.
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Hearing
The process, function, or power of perceiving sound.
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How Hearing Works
Whether it’s helping you survive or communicate, hearing is a critical sense with a complex internal system from ear to ear.
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What Causes Goosebumps?
Goosebumps are part of your body’s reaction to danger. But they can also be caused by great music. Those two experiences are more similar than you might think.
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Something in the Water
Special sensory organs allow fish to detect the slightest vibrations in the water around them.
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Restoring Sight and Sound
It isn’t just your ears that allow you to hear, or just your eyes that allow you to see — it’s your brain.
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The Brain Prize Presents: Christine Petit
In 2012 professors Christine Petit and Karen Steel were awarded the prize for their efforts to understand deafness at a molecular level.
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The Senses: How We Experience the World PowerPoint Presentation
Our senses do more than tell us when something smells sweet, or feels soft — they help us interpret our environment. This presentation will help you teach students how the brain processes our senses.
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Unraveling Hearing Loss
Even moderate levels of noise can lead to significant hearing impairments.
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