Have you ever felt your ears ringing after listening to loud musi...

Question

Have you ever felt your ears ringing after listening to loud music? Can this permanently impair your hearing? Should manufacturers of music devices and producers of concerts be required to warn consumers? What effect might warnings have?

Accepted Answer

Okay everyone for this practice problem. We have continuous exposure to extremely loud music can damage blank part of the inner air. Now recall that the ear has three main parts the outer the middle and the inner ear. And our answer will be a part of the inner ear. Let's take a look at our answer choices. We have a tim panic membrane. This is actually a membrane that divides the outer and the inner ear. And so this is incorrect because it is not part of the inner ear. Then we have bu station tube. The use station tube is a tube that connects the middle ear in the back of the nose which is not part of the inner ear. And we can eliminate B as well. Then we have C. Hair cells in the organ of corti. Remember that hair cells are receptors and convert mechanical stimuli from the sound vibrations into the electrical signaling. And this happens within the inner ear with continuous loud music. These hair cells can die and this negatively affects our ability to hear. So, knowing that C. Is our correct answer and we can automatically eliminate D None of the above. All right, everyone. I hope you found this helpful and I'll see you for the next practice problem

Have you ever felt your ears ringing after listening to loud music? Can this permanently impair your hearing? Should manufacturers of music devices and producers of concerts be required to warn consumers? What effect might warnings have?

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