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Auditory

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Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing:

  • Auditory system, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception
    • Auditory bulla, part of auditory system found in mammals other than primates
    • Auditory nerve, also known as the cochlear nerve is one of two parts of a cranial nerve
    • Auditory ossicles, three bones in the middle ear that transmit sounds
  • Hearing (sense), the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived
  • Ear, the auditory end organ
  • Cochlea, the auditory branch of the inner ear
  • Sound, the physical signal perceived by the auditory system
  • External auditory meatus, the ear canal
  • Primary auditory cortex, the part of the higher-level of the brain that serves hearing
  • Auditory agnosia
  • Auditory exclusion, a form of temporary hearing loss under high stress
  • Auditory feedback, an aid to control speech production and singing
  • Auditory hallucination, perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus
  • Auditory illusion, sound trick analogous to an optical illusion
  • Auditory imagery, hearing in head in the absence of sound
  • Auditory learning, learning by listening
  • Auditory phonetics, the science of the sounds of language
  • Auditory scene analysis, the process by which a scene containing many sounds is perceived
  • Auditory science, concerning the perception of sound
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