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Hearing

The Hearing Mechanism

Figure 14: The hearing mechanism (from Rossing, 1990).
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  1. The Outer Ear:



  2. The Middle Ear:

  3. The Inner Ear:

Critical Bands

Binaural Hearing and Localization



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