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sensory system used for hearing

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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.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “auditory system” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.