Auditory system Quiz: questions and answers
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1. The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of:
Hearing
2. What is the first region of the cerebral cortex to receive auditory input?
Primary auditory cortex
3. What does SOC stand for?
Superior olivary complex
4. Where is the lateral nucleus of the trapezoid body (LNTB) located?
Ventral to the lateral superior olive (LSO)
5. What are hair cells?
Sensory receptors of both the auditory system and the vestibular system in the ears of all vertebrates
6. How many subdivisions does the inferior colliculus have?
3
7. Body worn aids were the first portable electronic hearing aids and were invented by:
Harvey Fletcher
8. What are the symptoms of Ménière's disease?
Feeling like the world is spinning, ringing in the ears, hearing loss, fullness in the ear
9. What is the hearing of sound when no external sound is presently called?
Tinnitus
10. What is the lateral lemniscus?
A tract of axons in the brainstem that carries information about sound from the cochlear nucleus to various brainstem nuclei and ultimately the contralateral inferior colliculus of the midbrain