The ear is a physically complex sense organ, especially in mammals. Because some of the ear s structure involves bones, much of the evolution of the ear can be followed through the fossil record. The ...

The pinna catches the vibrations and channels them down to the inner ear. When the vibration reaches your eardrum (a thin layer of skin inside your ear), they cause your eardrum to vibrate too.

Six patients had normal inner ear function, four had Ménière's disease, and nine had vestibular schwannoma (a benign tumor on a nerve that connects the inner ear to the brain).

Photo: M.Srinath Five-year-old Anjali was a stranger to sounds, being born with no external ear or ear canal, organs crucial for sound to be transmitted to the inner ear and processed by the brain.

MIT and Harvard scientists have figured out a way to harness a tiny electric current in the inner ear. The work, believed to be the first to pull electricity from the cochlea and use it to drive ...

Because the inner ear is not organized spatially, sound localization relies on the neural processing of implicit acoustic cues. To determine a sound's position, the brain must learn and calibrate ...

But OCT can benefit many more people if it can be used to collect images of the inner ear while patients are awake in the clinic. To achieve this goal, Oghalai, Applegate and their team have ...

An accumulation of fluid in the inner ear is a somewhat rare disorder known as Meniere’s disease. It is estimated to affect about 615,000 adults in the United States, with 45,000 new cases ...