Cochlea
The cochlea is the spiral inner-ear organ that converts sound vibrations into neural signals.
At a glance
Key signals
25% cross fields · reaches 2 more
- Audiology
- Explanation
- Examples
- Misconception
- Sourced relations
- Attribution
Dependencies
What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.
Enables · leads to
Cochlear Implantdepends onCochleaEstablished
Cochlear Implant depends on Cochlea.
Sensorineural Hearing Lossdepends onCochleaEstablished
Open Sensorineural Hearing Loss →
Sensorineural Hearing Loss depends on Cochlea.
Mechanism: Sensorineural loss arises from damage within the cochlea or auditory nerve.
Structural role & consequence
Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.
25% of its relationships cross field boundaries, reaching 2 other disciplines — unusual in a discipline where most concepts stay within their field.
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 4 of 4 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.
atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.
Structural neighbourhood: 4 → 23 → 73 concepts reachable within 3 hops.
structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.
cross-field
3 within-field, 1 cross-field
Strengths & constraints
Constraints
- Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
- No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation
Conditions
- Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural
Dependency radial
What this concept builds on (left) and what it makes possible (right) — derived from dependency and causal relations.
What builds on this
2 concepts build on this directly, 2 in total, across 1 discipline.
Structural downstream reach along dependency edges — not a claim of historical necessity.
Seen through each discipline
How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.
Through this lens it connects to Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Cochlear Implant and Otoacoustic Emissions.
Related ideas to explore
Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.
This idea also appears in…
The same structure shows up in other disciplines. These are real recurrences drawn from the graph — a starting point for asking “what carries over, and what changes?”
Concepts
crosses a discipline boundary
- Connects 4 other ideas across 1 discipline.
- A cross-disciplinary bridge — its connections reach into 2 other fields.
- Most of its connections are of the “Dependency” kind.
Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.
Sources
- Submicroscopic Structure of the Cochlea (1971) verified
- Ultrastructural Pathology of the Cochlea (1980) verified