This document discusses the anatomy and physiology of the auditory, olfactory, and taste systems. It describes the key structures involved in sound and smell signal processing, including the outer, middle, and inner ear which transmit sound waves to the cochlea and auditory nerve. It also outlines the main components of the olfactory system like the olfactory epithelium and receptor neurons, and how smells are transduced and processed centrally. Finally, it covers the organization of the taste system and how taste signals are transduced and processed in the brain.

1. Auditory Smell and Taste Signal Processing

2. Sound

3. Sound wave

4. The Audible Spectrum

5. External ear: sound boosting at 3Khz

6. Middle ear: Impedance Matching

7. Masking
Attenuation of Sound by Contraction of the Tensor
Tympani and Stapedius Muscles

8. The Inner Ear (Cochlea)

9. Basilar Membrane and Resonance in the Cochlea

10. Transmission of Sound Waves in the Cochlea

11. Pattern of Vibration of the Basilar Membrane

14. The Organ of Corti

15. Excitation of the Hair Cells

16. Hair Cell Receptor Potentials

17. Innervation of the organ of Corti

18. Auditory Pathway

19. Integrating Information from the Two Ears

20. Determination of Direction of Sound

22. The Auditory Cortex

23. Discrimination of Sound “Patterns” by the Auditory Cortex

24. Auditory Evoked Response
BAEP

27. Organization of the human olfactory system
A) Peripheral and central components of the olfactory pathway.
B) (B) Enlargement of region boxed in (A) showing the relationship between the
olfactory epithelium,
C) containing the olfactory receptor neurons, and the olfactory bulb (the central
target of olfactory receptor neurons

28. Olfactory Perception in Humans

29. The Olfactory Epithelium and Olfactory Receptor Neurons

30. The Transduction of Olfactory Signals

31. Olfactory System
(C) Diagram of the basic pathways for processing olfactory information.
(D) Central components of the olfactory system.

32. Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Odorants

33. Taste System

34. The Organization of the Taste System

35. Transduction of Taste Signals

36. Central Processing of Taste Signals