Use your understanding of the hearing pathway to predict the effect each of the following would have on hearing. Use the choices below for your answers.
For each of the following situations, hearing would
• be unaffected
• gain loudness
• lose loudness
• lose information about pitch
• be lost completely
lose loudness
fingers blocking the ear canal
lose loudness
ruptured eardrum
be lost completely
cut the auditory nerve
lose loudness
link between the incus and stapes broken
lose loudness
buildup of ear wax
gain loudness
hand cupped behind the pinna
lose loudness and lose
damage to hair cells in the cochlea
information about pitch
lose information about
damage to part of the brain that processes
pitch or be lost
electrical impulses arriving from the cochlea
completely (depending
on location)
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