Importance of Hearing

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The Importance of Hearing What makes hearing important to a person? Helen Keller once said, "Blindness separates people from things, deafness separates people from people". You may ask yourself "how does hearing function"? Well let me explain. Hearing involves a chain of events all starting at pinna, the visible external part of the ear. After guided into the ear canal, sound waves collide with the eardrum. Setting it into motion, it causes three small bones, the auditory ossicles, to vibrate. The ossicles link in the eardrum with the cochlea (makes up the inner ear). Stapes is attached to a membrane on the cochlea called the oval window. As the oval window moves back and forth, it makes waves in a fluid inside the cochlea. Inside the cochlea tiny hair cells detect waves in the fluid. The hair cells are part of the organ of Corti which makes up the center of the cochlea. A set of "bristles" on top each hair brush against the tectorial membrane when waves ripple through the fluid surrounding the organ of Corti. As the bristles are bent, nerve impulses are triggered which then flows to the brain where we can acknowledge the sound. Now that we understand how sound is heard, lets go back to our original question. What makes hearing important? This sense is the most important to me because being deaf isolates us from humanity. One of the reasons hearing is important to not just me but also my peers is because it helps our education. Since listening requires the brain to process every word and sound that comes out of a professor and/or machine then hearing is an important part of education. If you can’t listen then you can't learn. Especially if out of the three learning strategies there are, your most comfortable is auditory. Hearing helps us to maintain a high level of concentration with little effort. So we are able to communicate with

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