What is hearing?
Of the five senses, hearing is one of the most important. Audible sounds enable communication, and they can tell us what and where things are. They certainly have a significant effect on how we feel. The human ear is an organ of complex design and function. The ear forms the receiver and transmission line to the brain, which then processes this information and converts the received signal into something that we can understand. The sound is then perceived as loud or soft, as a high or a low note, or on a more general level, perhaps as noise, or as music.
