Introduction Photography First place Second place Honorable mention Multimedia First place Second place Third place Honorable mention Illustration First place Second place Honorable mention   The judges		Credit: B. Pletsch, iMed Studios. Auditory Transduction Brandon Pletsch This 7-minute video takes viewers on a step-by-step voyage through the inside of the ear, to the acoustic accompaniment of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Pletsch, a former medical illustration student at the Medical College of Georgia, first built a physical ear model and mapped which frequency ranges hit which parts of the inner ear. He then created digital renderings of each part of the hearing pathway using several software packages. A narrator describes how the sound waves travel through each portion of the ear, and how hair cells translate the vibrations they induce into nerve impulses. See excerpts from the video: Tympanic membrane (QuickTime, 3.8 MB) Stapes (QuickTime, 2.9 MB)
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