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NewsLink: Hearing, Balance, Taste, and Smell

This assignment will help you make connections between the science of biopsychology and your daily life, and keep you apprised of the latest developments in the field. You will search BioPsychology NewsLink ( 3e.mindsmachine.com/news) for a media article related to the Hearing, Balance, Taste, and Smell chapter. You can search by keyword using the chapter's key terms in the list below, or click on the links by chapter. You can also enter one of the keywords on Google (news tab). Once you find a layperson article you're interested in, complete your journal entry by answering the six assignment questions.

Assignment

The journal is not a paper! Aim for one sentence per prompt. Work offline in a word processing program, but cut and paste your answers into the text box. Kindly do not attach a document. 

1. What keyword did you search?

2. What is the article about?

3. How was the research conducted?

4. What results caught your eye?

5. What conclusions can you draw?

6. What is the link to your article?

Key Terms

amplitude

ampulla

amusia

basilar membrane

central deafness

cochlea

cochlear implant

cochlear nuclei

conduction deafness

cortical deafness

deafness

decibel (dB)

ear canal

flavor

frequency

fundamental

glomerulus

gustatory system

hair cell

harmonic

hearing loss

hertz (Hz)

inferior colliculi

infrasound

inner ear

inner hair cell (IHC)

interaural intensity difference (IID)

interaural temporal difference (ITD)

medial geniculate nucleus

middle ear

motion sickness

odor

olfaction

olfactory bulb

olfactory epithelium

organ of Corti

ossicles

outer hair cell (OHC)

oval window

papilla

pheromone

pinna

place coding theory

primary auditory cortex

pure tone

scala media

scala tympani

scala vestibuli

semicircular canal

sensorineural deafness

spectral filtering

stereocilium

superior olivary nucleus

T1R

T2R

taste

taste bud

tectorial membrane

temporal coding theory

timbre

tinnitus

tonotopic organization

trace amine–associated receptor (TAAR)

transduction

tympanic membrane

ultrasound

umami

vestibular nuclei

vestibular system

vestibulocochlear nerve

vomeronasal organ (VNO)

word deafness