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Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing:

  • Auditory system
    Auditory system

    The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing ....
    , the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception.
  • Sound
    Sound

    Sound is vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a threshold of hearing to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations....
    , the physical signal perceived by the auditory system.
  • Hearing (sense)
    Hearing (sense)

    Hearing is one of the traditional five senses. It is the ability to perceive sound by detecting vibrations via an organ such as the ear. The inability to hear is called deafness....
    , is the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived.
  • Ear
    Ear

    The ear is the sense organ that detects sounds. The vertebrate ear shows a common biology from fish to humans, with variations in structure according to order and species....
    , the auditory end organ.
  • Cochlea
    Cochlea

    The cochlea is the auditory portion of the inner ear. Its core component is the Organ of Corti, the sensory organ of hearing , which is distributed along the partition separating fluid chambers in the coiled tapered tube of the cochlea....
    , the auditory branch of the inner ear.
  • Auditory illusion
    Auditory illusion

    An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing , the aural equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds....
    , sound trick analogous to an optical illusion.
  • Primary auditory cortex
    Primary auditory cortex

    The primary auditory cortex is the region of the brain that is responsible for processing of auditory system information....
    , the part of the higher-level of the brain that serves hearing.
  • External auditory meatus, the ear canal
    Ear canal

    The ear canal , is a tube running from the outer ear to the middle ear. The human ear canal extends from the pinna...
  • Auditory scene analysis
    Auditory scene analysis

    In psychophysics, auditory scene analysis is the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into perceptually meaningful elements....
    , the process by which a scene containing many sounds is perceived
  • Auditory phonetics
    Auditory phonetics

    Auditory phonetics is a branch of phonetics concerned with the hearing of speech sounds and with speech perception....
    , the science of the sounds of language
  • Auditory imagery
    Auditory imagery

    In psychology and neuropsychology, auditory imagery is the subjective experience of hearing in the absence of auditory system stimulation. It occurs when one mentally rehearses telephone numbers, or has a song "on the brain": the phenomenon is usually defined to be spontaneous ; it can be distressing....
    , hearing in head in the absence of sound