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GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 33

Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting · Sensation: Sensory thresholds and adaptation, vision, hearing, touch and pain, smell and taste, kinesthesis and vestibular sense · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Transduction of mechanical energy into nerve impulses in the auditory system takes place in reponse to bending of the ________________.

  1. pinna
  2. hair cells
  3. incus
  4. malleus

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Correct answer: (B) hair cells

Explanation

In the cochlea, sound waves bend the hair cells, which convert the mechanical energy into nerve impulses.