auditory system
Sign in to savesensory system used for hearing
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sensory nervous system
- Subclass of
- biological process
- Part of
- sensory nervous system
- Has part
- olivary body
- Image
- Biophysical science (1962) (20374669702).jpg
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- Auditory system
- topic's main category
- Category:Auditory system
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- studied by
- electrophysiology
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Encyclopedic overview
How sounds make their way from the source to the brain The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing. It includes both the sensory organs (the ears) and the auditory parts of the sensory system.
System overview
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “auditory system” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.