{"id":5282,"date":"2020-08-06T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T14:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2020-11-27T18:20:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:20:12","slug":"the-hearing-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/fr\/the-hearing-journey","title":{"rendered":"Le parcours de l&#039;audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qui n\u2019aime pas \u00e9couter une bonne musique dans la voiture\u2009? C\u2019est pour plusieurs une bonne fa\u00e7on de passer le temps dans la circulation. Un moment seul avec soi, pour se laisser emporter par les accords, danser du haut du corps sur un rythme entrainant, chanter en ch\u0153ur et m\u00eame tenter d\u2019atteindre cette fameuse note haute! Aucune de ces \u00ab\u2009activit\u00e9s musicales\u2009\u00bb ne serait possible sans notre capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 entendre.<\/p>\n<h3>Le son, une vibration<\/h3>\n<p>Chaque son que vous entendez est simplement le mouvement (propagation) de particules d\u2019air dans l\u2019espace. Lorsqu\u2019un objet se d\u00e9place, il perturbe les particules d\u2019air environnantes qui se heurtent alors les unes aux autres et cr\u00e9ent une onde de propagation de particules s\u2019\u00e9loignant dans toutes les directions de la source. Ce mouvement de particules d\u2019air peut \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme une vibration de l\u2019air, mieux connue sous le nom d\u2019onde sonore. C\u2019est lorsque ces vibrations atteignent l\u2019oreille puis le cerveau que nous ENTENDONS r\u00e9ellement le son. Ainsi, la question classique \u00ab Si un arbre tombe dans la for\u00eat et que personne n\u2019est l\u00e0 pour l\u2019entendre, fait-il un bruit ? \u00bb La r\u00e9ponse est oui, il fait un bruit. Il cr\u00e9e des vibrations dans l\u2019air (onde sonore), que l\u2019oreille soit pr\u00e9sente ou non pour l\u2019entendre. Nous pouvons consid\u00e9rer la vibration de l\u2019air comme une \u00e9nergie acoustique.<\/p>\n<h3>L\u2019oreille externe : Traiter l\u2019\u00e9nergie acoustique<\/h3>\n<p>Revenons \u00e0 notre musique dans la voiture. Le son cr\u00e9\u00e9 par les haut-parleurs fait vibrer l\u2019air autour de nous. Cette vibration, qu\u2019on peut appeler \u00e9nergie acoustique, entre dans l\u2019oreille et se rend jusqu\u2019au tympan. Le tympan est une membrane qui agit comme la peau d\u2019un tambour. Elle transforme l\u2019\u00e9nergie acoustique en mouvement, qu\u2019on appelle \u00e9nergie m\u00e9canique.<\/p>\n<h3>L'oreille moyenne : Transformer l\u2019\u00e9nergie acoustique en \u00e9nergie m\u00e9canique<\/h3>\n<p>Le tympan est reli\u00e9 aux plus petits os du corps, les osselets. Ces 3 petits os forment une chaine qui amplifie le mouvement du tympan. Ainsi, les tr\u00e8s l\u00e9g\u00e8res vibrations de l\u2019air peuvent traverser l\u2019oreille jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la cochl\u00e9e. La cochl\u00e9e est l\u2019organe de l\u2019audition qui a la forme d\u2019un escargot. Elle est remplie de liquide et sa paroi est tapiss\u00e9e de cils. Les osselets sont attach\u00e9s \u00e0 une fine membrane \u00e0 la base de la cochl\u00e9e. Ils poussent et tirent sur la membrane au rythme de la fine vibration de l\u2019air qu\u2019ils ont amplifi\u00e9e. Ce mouvement cr\u00e9e des vagues dans le liquide de la cochl\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<h3>L'oreille interne : Cr\u00e9er de l\u2019\u00e9nergie \u00e9lectrique<\/h3>\n<p>Comme mentionn\u00e9 plus t\u00f4t, on retrouve des cils plant\u00e9s tout au long de la cochl\u00e9e. Ils servent \u00e0 transformer la vague en un message \u00e9lectrique compr\u00e9hensible pour le cerveau. Les vagues font bouger des endroits pr\u00e9cis selon le son entendu.<\/p>\n<p>Les cellules auditives sont organis\u00e9es dans un ordre tr\u00e8s sp\u00e9cifique dans la cochl\u00e9e. Diff\u00e9rentes cellules cili\u00e9es sont responsables de coder diff\u00e9rentes fr\u00e9quences. Si on d\u00e9roulait le lima\u00e7on de la cochl\u00e9e, on obtiendrait une sorte de piano, avec les sons graves d\u2019un c\u00f4t\u00e9, jusqu\u2019aux fr\u00e9quences plus aigu\u00ebs de l\u2019autre. L\u2019endroit dans la cochl\u00e9e o\u00f9 le mouvement de la vague contient le plus d\u2019\u00e9nergie (est le plus grand) correspond \u00e0 la fr\u00e9quence du son qui le produit. La plupart des sons que l\u2019on entend sont plus complexes qu\u2019une simple fr\u00e9quence.<\/p>\n<p>Ils sont un amalgame de plusieurs fr\u00e9quences ensemble. Malgr\u00e9 tout, la cochl\u00e9e est capable de d\u00e9faire ces sons en messages \u00e9lectriques simples pour que le cerveau puisse les analyser et leur donner un sens. Ainsi on peut reconnaitre le morceau de musique qui joue. L\u2019ou\u00efe est un sens fascinant auquel la majorit\u00e9 d\u2019entre nous ne portons pas grande attention jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce qu\u2019il y ait un probl\u00e8me. Quand on d\u00e9fait le chemin du son en ses diff\u00e9rentes parties, il devient impressionnant de comprendre combien de petites portions travaillent ensemble pour nous permettre d\u2019appr\u00e9hender le mode sonore autour de nous. Pour en apprendre plus sur les diff\u00e9rentes parties du syst\u00e8me auditif pouvant faire d\u00e9faut et entrainer des pertes auditives, <a href=\"https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/fr\/the-5-shades-of-hearing-loss\/\">cliquer ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pic.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pic.png 812w, https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pic-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pic-768x737.png 768w, https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pic-600x576.png 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"614\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever just taken a minute to listen to all the amazing sounds around us? The leaves bustling with the wind, the perfect guitar solo in your favourite song, children laughing, a bug buzzing around your head. We often don\u2019t stop to think about just how many sounds, both simple and complex, are present in our daily lives or how unbelievably accurate our auditory system is at instantaneously taking in all of the information and making sense of what we\u2019re hearing. So let\u2019s break down the hearing process into steps to highlight just how amazingly complex our auditory systems are. The Sound, A Vibration. Every sound that you hear is simply the movement (propagation) of air particles through space. When an object moves, it disturbs the surrounding air particles which then bump into each other and create a propagating wave of particles moving away in all directions from the source.&nbsp; This movement of air particles can be thought of as vibration of the air, better known as a sound wave. It is when those vibrations reach the ear and then further the brain that we actually HEAR the sound. So, the classic question \u201cIf a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?\u201d The answer is yes it does make a sound. It creates the vibrations in the air (sound wave) regardless of whether an ear is present to hear it. We can think of the vibration of air as acoustic energy. The Outer Ear \u2013 Filtering the Acoustic Energy Let&#8217;s imagine we are listening to our favourite guitar solo on the radio. The vibrating speakers will create a sound wave that vibrates the surrounding air particles creating the travelling wave of acoustic energy discussed above. These acoustic vibrations then get funneled into the ear canal by the pinna (the part of the ear that we can see) towards the eardrum. The outer ear consists of the pinna and the ear canal and its main function is to pick up environmental sounds and direct them towards the middle ear. The eardrum is a membrane that separates the outer ear and the middle ear. It acts like the skin of a drum and transforms the acoustic energy into movement, called mechanical energy. The Middle Ear \u2013 Transforming Acoustic Energy into Mechanical Energy The eardrum is linked to the three smallest bones in the body known as the ossicles. As the eardrum begins to vibrate in response to the acoustic energy entering the ear, the ossicles also being to move. These three tiny bones form a chain that amplify the movement of the eardrum and send these vibrations to the inner ear, specifically the cochlea. The cochlea is a small snail-shaped organ that contains thousands of tiny hair cells and is full of fluid. The vibrations from the ossicles creates a travelling wave the ripples through the fluid-filled cochlea. And this is where the magic happens! The Inner Ear \u2013 The Electrical Messenger As the travelling wave moves through the fluid-filled cochlea the tiny hair cells bend in response to the fluid movement. The bending of the hair cells opens a channel on the cell surface allowing chemicals to rush into the cell and this creates an electrical signal. This electrical signal is then sent along the auditory nerve up the brain to be processed for meaning. The role of the inner ear is to convert the mechanical vibrations from the middle ear into a language that the brain can make sense of. The hair cells are organized in a very specific way inside the cochlea, and different hair cells are responsible for encoding different frequencies. If you were to unravel the snail-like cochlea completely, it would resemble a piano with low frequency hair cells on one end moving up to high frequency hair cells on the other. The point along the cochlea in which the travelling wave has the most energy (is the \u201cbiggest\u201d) will correspond to the frequency of the sound source. Most complex sounds that we hear are not a single frequency but are made up of many frequencies all pooled together. Even so, the cochlea is able to tease apart these complex sounds into simple electrical signals for the brain to process and assign meaning to so that we are able to recognize the sound as your favourite guitar solo. Hearing is a very fascinating sense that most of us tend not to pay too much attention to until there is a problem. When we break down the pathway of sound into the different parts it truly is amazing how many tiny parts are working together in order for us to not only hear but to comprehend the sounds of our incredibly complex world. To learn more about how the different parts of the system can malfunction and cause a hearing loss click here.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[85,81,83,79,80,82,193,84,78],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audiology","tag-brain","tag-cochlea","tag-ear","tag-inner-ear","tag-middle-ear","tag-outer-ear","tag-resources","tag-sound","tag-sound-wave"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Hearing Journey - because sound matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/becausesoundmatters.ca\/fr\/the-hearing-journey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hearing Journey - because sound matters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you ever just taken a minute to listen to all the amazing sounds around us? 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The leaves bustling with the wind, the perfect guitar solo in your favourite song, children laughing, a bug buzzing around your head. We often don\u2019t stop to think about just how many sounds, both simple and complex, are present in our daily lives or how unbelievably accurate our auditory system is at instantaneously taking in all of the information and making sense of what we\u2019re hearing. So let\u2019s break down the hearing process into steps to highlight just how amazingly complex our auditory systems are. The Sound, A Vibration. Every sound that you hear is simply the movement (propagation) of air particles through space. When an object moves, it disturbs the surrounding air particles which then bump into each other and create a propagating wave of particles moving away in all directions from the source.&nbsp; This movement of air particles can be thought of as vibration of the air, better known as a sound wave. It is when those vibrations reach the ear and then further the brain that we actually HEAR the sound. So, the classic question \u201cIf a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?\u201d The answer is yes it does make a sound. It creates the vibrations in the air (sound wave) regardless of whether an ear is present to hear it. We can think of the vibration of air as acoustic energy. The Outer Ear \u2013 Filtering the Acoustic Energy Let&#8217;s imagine we are listening to our favourite guitar solo on the radio. The vibrating speakers will create a sound wave that vibrates the surrounding air particles creating the travelling wave of acoustic energy discussed above. These acoustic vibrations then get funneled into the ear canal by the pinna (the part of the ear that we can see) towards the eardrum. The outer ear consists of the pinna and the ear canal and its main function is to pick up environmental sounds and direct them towards the middle ear. The eardrum is a membrane that separates the outer ear and the middle ear. It acts like the skin of a drum and transforms the acoustic energy into movement, called mechanical energy. The Middle Ear \u2013 Transforming Acoustic Energy into Mechanical Energy The eardrum is linked to the three smallest bones in the body known as the ossicles. As the eardrum begins to vibrate in response to the acoustic energy entering the ear, the ossicles also being to move. These three tiny bones form a chain that amplify the movement of the eardrum and send these vibrations to the inner ear, specifically the cochlea. The cochlea is a small snail-shaped organ that contains thousands of tiny hair cells and is full of fluid. The vibrations from the ossicles creates a travelling wave the ripples through the fluid-filled cochlea. And this is where the magic happens! The Inner Ear \u2013 The Electrical Messenger As the travelling wave moves through the fluid-filled cochlea the tiny hair cells bend in response to the fluid movement. The bending of the hair cells opens a channel on the cell surface allowing chemicals to rush into the cell and this creates an electrical signal. This electrical signal is then sent along the auditory nerve up the brain to be processed for meaning. The role of the inner ear is to convert the mechanical vibrations from the middle ear into a language that the brain can make sense of. The hair cells are organized in a very specific way inside the cochlea, and different hair cells are responsible for encoding different frequencies. If you were to unravel the snail-like cochlea completely, it would resemble a piano with low frequency hair cells on one end moving up to high frequency hair cells on the other. The point along the cochlea in which the travelling wave has the most energy (is the \u201cbiggest\u201d) will correspond to the frequency of the sound source. Most complex sounds that we hear are not a single frequency but are made up of many frequencies all pooled together. Even so, the cochlea is able to tease apart these complex sounds into simple electrical signals for the brain to process and assign meaning to so that we are able to recognize the sound as your favourite guitar solo. Hearing is a very fascinating sense that most of us tend not to pay too much attention to until there is a problem. When we break down the pathway of sound into the different parts it truly is amazing how many tiny parts are working together in order for us to not only hear but to comprehend the sounds of our incredibly complex world. 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