Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and largest city in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area, which has an estimated population of 365,419.
Auditory System Anatomy - Neurophysiologic Considerations. 1  The complex chain of nerve cells in the auditory system helps to process and relay auditory information, encoded in the form of nerve impulses, directly to the highest cerebral levels in the cortex of the brain. To some extent, different properties of the auditory stimulus are conveyed along distinct parallel pathways.
The vestibulocochlear and facial nerves both travel through a canal in the temporal bone, called the internal auditory meatus. The first part of the vestibulocochlear nerve, the vestibular nerve, detects balance from head and body motion. The second part of the vestibulocochlear, the cochlear nerve, receives auditory stimuli. The hair cells, or sensory cells, are responsible for transmitting the information from the inner ear to the brain.