Peripheral Auditory System
The auditory periphery, starting with the ear, is the first stage of the transduction of sound in a hearing organism. While not part of the nervous system, its components feed directly into the nervous system, performing a time-frequency transformation of sound pressure-waves into neural action potentials.
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