Auditory Transduction (2002)

This 7-minute video by Brandon Pletsch takes viewers on a step-by-step voyage through the inside of the ear, to the acoustic accompaniment of classical music. Pletsch, a former medical illustration student at the Medical College of Georgia, first built a physical ear model and mapped which frequency ranges hit which parts of the inner ear. He then created digital renderings of each part of the hearing pathway using several software packages. A narrator describes how the sound waves travel through each portion of the ear, and how hair cells translate the vibrations they induce into nerve impulses.

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Education

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• hearing
• auditory
• transduction
• deafness
• loss
• sound
• waves
• acoustic
• physiology
• nerve
• hair
• cells
• biology
• Pletsch
• Brandon
• medical
• illustration
• animation
• MCG
• college
• georgia

[dspinelle]

Agreed! I learn more with well constructed 7 min videos like this than with an hour of lecture with slipped words and lazy low resolution power points.

[Seikaly22]

Pretty cool! I find it a little ironic that they decided to use Beethoven's music to discuss the ear though...

[cudzmaguire]

amazing video!

[audreygetstuck]

thank you T^T i didn't know what my teacher was saying haha!!!! 

[MsPoeckchen]

Very good vid! just saved me a lot of time studying for my next exam!

[tialicious13]

this video is really stunning!

[2012hanaa]

سبحان الله

[ladysady91]

even the music was well-chosen :) perfect!

[bareitan]

Amazing !!!

[hpskochar78]

Awesome. But very surprised at the 5 dislikes. This was simply mind blowing.

[discpad]

Actually, there's an error at the 5:09 mark: The inner and outer hair cells were conflated, as there is amplification taking place between the softer OHC's and bristle-like IHC's.

TheHearingBlog

[20019988]

Plz make some more videos like this this is extraordinary very clearer than books