Hearing involves many parts of the ear and brain to process sound into information that we can understand. There are six steps involved in hearing: 1) auditory reception 2) perception 3) signal conditioning 4) neural transmission 5) neural processing 6) memory storage and recall. These six steps happen one after another as sound waves travel through the ear canal and then into the inner ear and brain. Each step plays an important role in hearing and how we process sounds into words and language. The sixth step is what happens after we have heard something and we need to recall what we have heard. This process is called memory storage and recall. We need to store what we hear so that we can recall it later on when we want to talk about what we heard. We do this by using our memory storage and recall system to recall what we heard so that we can use it later on when we want to talk about what we heard.