From one side of this vestibule, or central hall, the three semicircular canals pass off, and from the other side, the cochlea.
Here, also, sound is collected and retained by the mastoid cells and cochlea.
Analysis of the wave forms allows information to be obtained about the middle ear, the cochlea, the eighth nerve and the central auditory connections.
Our target - selected from the world - might be the human cochlea and the human behaviour of pitch perception.
But this essay is actually about the workings of the inner ear, and even that becomes an introduction to the wondrous intricacies of the cochlea.
The cochlea is a very delicate structure with a profuse blood supply and is very sensitive both to ototoxic agents and to noise.
The ossicles function as an impedance transformer to provide sufficient force at the oval window to move the fluid which fills the cochlea in response to external acoustic vibrations.
