Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing:
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Auditory system
The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing. It includes both the ear, sensory organs (the ears) and the auditory parts of the sensory system.
System overview
The outer ear funnels sound vibrations to the eardrum, incre ...
, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception
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Auditory bulla
The tympanic part of the temporal bone is a curved plate of bone lying below the squamous part of the temporal bone, in front of the mastoid process, and surrounding the external part of the ear canal.
It originates as a separate bone (tympanic b ...
, part of auditory system found in mammals other than primates
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Auditory nerve, also known as the cochlear nerve is one of two parts of a cranial nerve
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Auditory ossicles, three bones in the middle ear that transmit sounds
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Hearing (sense)
Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory ...
, the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived
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Ear, the auditory end organ
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Cochlea
The cochlea is the part of the inner ear involved in hearing. It is a spiral-shaped cavity in the bony labyrinth, in humans making 2.75 turns around its axis, the modiolus (cochlea), modiolus. A core component of the cochlea is the organ of Cort ...
, the auditory branch of the inner ear
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the br ...
, the physical signal perceived by the auditory system
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ear canal
The ear canal (external acoustic meatus, external auditory meatus, EAM) is a pathway running from the outer ear to the middle ear. The adult human ear canal extends from the auricle to the eardrum and is about in length and in diameter.
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Primary auditory cortex
The auditory cortex is the part of the temporal lobe that processes auditory information in humans and many other vertebrates. It is a part of the auditory system, performing basic and higher functions in hearing, such as possible relations to ...
, the part of the higher-level of the brain that serves hearing
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Auditory agnosia
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Auditory exclusion, a form of temporary hearing loss under high stress
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Auditory feedback, an aid to control speech production and singing
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Auditory hallucination, perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus
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Auditory illusion, sound trick analogous to an optical illusion
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Auditory imagery
Auditory imagery is a form of mental imagery that is used to organize and analyze sounds when there is no external auditory stimulus present. This form of imagery is broken up into a couple of auditory modalities such as verbal imagery or musical i ...
, hearing in head in the absence of sound
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Auditory learning
Auditory learning or auditory modality is one of three learning modalities originally proposed by Walter Burke Barbe and colleagues that characterizes a learner as depending on listening and speaking as a main way of processing and/or retaining i ...
, learning by listening
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Auditory phonetics
Auditory phonetics is the branch of phonetics concerned with the hearing of speech sounds and with speech perception. It thus entails the study of the relationships between speech stimuli and a listener's responses to such stimuli as mediated by me ...
, the science of the sounds of language
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Auditory scene analysis, the process by which a scene containing many sounds is perceived
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Auditory science Auditory science or hearing science is a field of research and education concerning the Hearing, perception of sounds by humans, animals, or machines. It is a heavily interdisciplinary field at the crossroad between acoustics, neuroscience, and psyc ...
, concerning the perception of sound
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