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The Good, the Bad & the Irritating

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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What's Happening in Your Ears?

When we hear that finger nails on a chalk board sound, or any sound, pleasant or unpleasant, what's actual happening in our bodies? The information gets shuttled along a series of stations in the auditory brain stem up to the outer layers of the brain. Even as you listen right now, your ears and brain are going through this process.

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