Psychology › Section E · Sensation and perception › Topic E.4
Hearing
Every voice, song and warning you hear starts as tiny pressure changes in the air. This topic follows them through the ear to the brain, explains how we tell high notes from low ones and left from right, and looks at how hearing can be lost and how Deaf communities live and communicate.
In this topic
- From pressure waves to meaning
- The outer and middle ear
- The inner ear and the auditory pathway
- Place theory of pitch
- Temporal theory and the volley principle
- Worked example: coding three tones
- Locating sounds
- Worked example: how big is the delay?
- Hearing loss
- Deaf culture
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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