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Hearing
How Playing an Instrument Affects Your Brain
Playing a musical instrument is the brain equivalent of a full-body workout.
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Hair Cells
The ear’s hair cells convert vibrations in the air into electrical messages the brain interprets as sound.
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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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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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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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Adventurers Chloe and Nurb go on a musical quest through the ear.
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Senses and Sensibility: A Webinar
Have you ever wondered how you can catch a ball, see the color blue, taste chocolate, smell bad breath, or hear a bird song? Learn more in this Brain Awareness Week webinar.
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Sense of Hair-ing
Tiny cells in the inner ear transform vibrations in the air into every imaginable sound.
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Roundup: Senses and Perception
How much do you know about how your senses work?
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Signaling Across Brain Regions
Even something as simple as speaking requires the interplay of different brain areas.
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Constructing Sound: Auditory Brainstem Implants
New technologies are giving children who are deaf a chance to hear.
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