Middle Ear Function is
Middle ear functions: Conduct the sound from outer ear to inner ear Middle ear muscles provide protection from loud sound It serves as an acoustic transformer to match the impedance of air to the much higher impedance of cochlear fluids Couples sound preferably to only one window of cochlea, thus producing differential pressure between windows, necessary for cochlear fluid movement
Impendence matching
Frequency discrimination
Intensity Discrimination
Speech Localization
DNB 2018