Problem: Write down the pathway that sound waves travel through the outer ear (pinna), middle ear (ossicles), and inner ear (cochlea). What parts of the ear do they hit against, and where do they get transduced into a neural signal? What is the name of the receptor cells that turn the physical stimulus of a sound wave into a neural signal? Then I would like you to tell me the pathway that the auditory nerve takes to send the signal to the temporal lobe (the simplified pathway, not the full one in the slide). Tell me where the axons cross over and which specific parts they synapse with.