More precisely, there is a conjunction of external sounds with internal perception via the "implanted air" of the inner ear, and sounds, carried by the inner ear's nerve to the brain, stimulate or generate "passions." To suit the passions in respect to sound and hearing, Wright says in his The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604) that the heart has a different relation to the passions: they "dilate or
coarct the heart" (60), that is, to contract it.