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AP Psychology 2.2 Sensation and Perception. The snail-like structure that houses cells capable of picking up sound waves is called the what?
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Thank you Wait here's your shmoop du jour brought two
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you bye snails Yeah this could take a while Okay
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here we go The snail like structure that houses cells
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capable of picking up sound waves is called the what
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And here are answers All right well so we're looking
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for something that looks like a snail and picks up
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sound waves and by picking up we don't mean using
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cheesy one liners picking up means receiving and probably sending
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information from sound waves not just being affected by sound
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waves Now that we have that covered we might as
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well follow along with a sound wave is it enters
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a near we'll call you rattle by bumming a ride
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from him will probably find the answer to our question
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No time sound good so let's see after entering the
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outer ear and heading up the ear canal rattle here
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meets the ear drum or temp tannic membrane of your
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fancy Here he runs into the ear drum causing it
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to vibrate Vibrations don't necessarily pick up sound waves Also
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the ear drum doesn't look very snail like over it's
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not our answer This causes the three small bones in
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the inner ear the rallyists incas and stay peas to
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vibrate These vibrations travel through the membrane covered opening the
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oval window there from the middle ear to the inner
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ear But seeing as none of these bones nor this
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oval window looked like a snail or possess special cells
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from picking up those waves you'll none of them have
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the answer to the question either Once these vibrations have
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traveled along those three bones known collectively as the bosic
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als and passed through the oval window they reached the
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snail life Qalqilya The cock leah is a bunch of
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lines with a basil remembering that contains hair cells That
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work is receptors for hearing The movement of these hair
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cells translates into neural information or is transducer effectively telling
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the brain what we're hearing in this case it's the
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neighbor kid blasting his dubstep but boring him Sorry qalqilya
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is dead Only our answer A fur I turn down 00:02:05.79 --> [endTime] that music
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