The Hearing Song | How Hearing Works - it’s CRAZY!

Are you curious about how hearing works? From the sound waves entering to the tympanic membrane vibrating, to the malleus, incus, and stapes doing their job, all the way to what happens in the cochlea and brain - this song captures it all. Enjoy!

LYRICS:

CHORUS:
How hearing works - it’s crazy
Sound waves make your eardrums wavy
Signal to the brain is blazing
This process is amazing

VERSE 1:

It starts with sound waves in the air
Then it flows to the ear to go in there
The Eustachian tube is where it flows
To the eardrum is where it goes
Tympanic membrane is what it’s called
Vibrates back and forth like it’s dropping bars
Vibrations transfer to the middle ear
And the three bony ossicles are in there

VERSE 2:
The malleus, incus, stapes
Jiggle back and forth - it’s crazy
To the oval window the energy
Gets transferred like there’s synergy
In the cochlea shaped like a snail
The basilar membrane will not fail
The fluid inside starts to vibrate
To the organ of corti and I cannot wait

VERSE 3:

The organ of corti moves up and down
And that’s where the hair cells can be found
The tectorial membrane causes them to bend
And they generate signals from their ends
The signals go through the auditory nerve
To the auditory cortex is where they’re served
And the signal is processed in the brain
It’s how hearing happens isn’t that insane?