The cranial nerve that controls hearing and body balance is the vestibulocochlear nerve, also known as cranial nerve VIII. It has two main branches: the cochlear branch, responsible for hearing, and the vestibular branch, responsible for balance and spatial orientation.
Cranial nerve VIII (vestibulocochlear or auditory) is predominantly sensory. The vestibular branch is involved in balance and equilibrium. The cochlear branch is involved in hearing.
The cranial nerve responsible for both equilibrium and hearing is the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII). It has two main branches: the vestibular branch, which is associated with balance and equilibrium, and the cochlear branch, which is associated with hearing.
VESTIBULO-COCHLEAR nerve which is 8th cranial nerve.
The vestibulocochlear nerve, also known as the cranial nerve VIII, is situated in the inner ear. It consists of two parts: the cochlear nerve which is responsible for hearing, and the vestibular nerve which helps with balance and spatial orientation.
The cranial nerve that innervates the ear is the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII). It has two branches: the vestibular nerve that controls balance and the cochlear nerve that controls hearing.
The cochlea is innervated by the cochlear nerve, which is the auditory branch of the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII). It carries sound information from the cochlea to the brainstem for processing.
Auditory Nerve from cochleaThe eighth cranial nerve, also called as vestibulocochlear nerve, transmits the neural impulse from inner ear to brain.the cochleaThe cochlea.
The vestibulocochlear nerve or cranial nerve 8 (CN8) is largely involved with listening to music. However the trigeminal nerve (CN5), which innervates the tensor tympani, and the facial nerve (CN7), which innervates the stapedius muscle, may alter the perception of sound and theoretically affect the perception of music.
Cranial nerve 7 is also referred to as the facial nerve. It has both sensory and motor components. Its sensory portion is responsible for taste on the anterior two thirds of the tongue as well as sensation for a small patch of skin by the ear. Its motor component is responsible for innervating the muscles of facial expression.
Organ of Corti; These hair-like projections (microvilli), called cilia and stereocilia, contain endings of the cochlear branch of the 8th cranial nerve.
The greater petrosal nerve is a branch of the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII). It carries parasympathetic fibers that innervate the lacrimal gland and nasal mucosa.