Chapter 9 – Hearing Loss and Tinnitus

摘要: Although a significant portion of the nervous system is devoted to hearing, neurologic disorders rarely present with auditory complaints, as compared visual or even vestibular which shares its end organ. The provides information about our acoustic environment. Not only can it detect presence sound within frequency range approximately 50 20,000 Hz, but also interpret various aspects including intensity (loudness), spectral content (pitch), source location, and more meaningful such type object generating sound, linguistic significance, prosody, affective sound.