See how our brains function in regards to hearing sounds while awake and asleep.

Watch how sounds affect the cochlea inside the human ear in this narrated animation. [1:30]

This video segment explores how one marine biologist used the scientific process to discover how whales hear. [5:58]

Continue on a journey through the sensory systems with a look at how your sense of hearing works. We follow sounds as they work there way into the ear, where they are registered and transformed into action potentials. This mechanism not...

Explains how the brain is able to understand sounds and speech. Aired May 29, 2009 [12:27]

How good is your hearing? Take a hearing test to determine the range of frequencies that you, other humans, and other animals can hear.

Animated video, with an accompanying quiz, describes the anatomy of the ear and explains how we hear.

This lesson will describe how the structure of you ear along with receptors allows you to hear. It will also investigate the ear's role in balance and equilibrium. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Hearing."

Crash Course A&P continues the journey through sensory systems with a look at how your sense of hearing works. We follow sounds as they work their way into the ear where they are registered and transformed into action potentials....

Learn about the sensory systems of the human body with these videos on sensory receptors, neural pathways to the somatosensory cortex, the anatomy of a spinal nerve, the withdrawal reflex, and the anatomy and physiology of hearing.

This video introduces children to the five senses by following two young girls through their day at an apple orchard. Students watch and listen as the girls describe what they hear, see, feel, taste, and smell as they go on a tractor...

Animated video explaining how the human ear works to allow us to hear sound. (1 min.)

We'll talk about research into how people hear, from the tiny hair cells within the ear, to the body's ways of dealing with loud noises.

Can your eyes and ears affect your taste buds?

Identify the anatomy of the ear and understand how the nerves allow for humans and animals to hear. [1:42]