The ability to listen depends on the auditory system.
Listening is a verb that refers to the action of paying attention to something that is captured by the auditory sense. The word, which comes from the Latin ascultāre , indicates that the person appeals to the faculties of their hearing to hear what is said.
For example: «Can you turn down the music, please? "I can't hear the television" , "I tried to listen to what Don Raúl told me as he passed by, but it was impossible" , "I give you some advice: dedicate yourself to listening more and talking less" .
Hearing problems
The act of listening, therefore, is linked to hearing and includes a psychological and physiological framework that allows a person to hear.
There are several diseases that exist with respect to the sense of hearing and that revolve around the listening that people do to those around them. Specifically, we can emphasize that deafness is the most common ailment and this consists of the difficulty or inability to use the ear due to the loss of hearing ability.
Listening to music is an activity that many people enjoy.
Types of deafness
More precisely we can determine that there are two types of deafness . On the one hand, there is the partial, which is defined because the person in question who suffers from it and suffers from it has slightly lost the aforementioned hearing capacity and this means that, in most cases, they find themselves in need. to use a hearing aid to improve this.
And secondly, we find the so-called complete deafness, also known as total deafness, which is what occurs when the person who is affected by it does not have the ability to hear absolutely anything.
It is interesting to emphasize that to understand in depth the reality of people who are suffering from total hearing loss, there are high quality films such as El País de los Sordos . Specifically, this production is a documentary that shows in a very conclusive way how deaf people live and how they relate either with the rest of society or with other citizens with whom they share this same disease.
The auditory system and the ability to listen
Human beings have an auditory system that is divided into peripheral (made up of the various regions of the ear) and central (made up of the nerves responsible for hearing and the brain). The first is responsible for capturing sounds and sending waves to the brain, while the second drives the psychological activity that completes perception.
When the ear receives a sound wave, it is responsible for transmitting it to the eardrum through the ear canal . The eardrum receives the wave and begins to vibrate, allowing bones to capture the vibration and amplify the sound. The amplified sound then reaches the inner ear and mobilizes liquids that act on the hair cells , in charge of transforming the wave into an electrical impulse that passes through the auditory nerve and reaches the auditory cortex . Only then does the human being manage to interpret the sound.