Definition of Auditory perception

1. Noun. The perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon.

Exact synonyms: Sound Perception
Generic synonyms: Perception
Specialized synonyms: Speech Perception, Musical Perception

Medical Definition of Auditory perception

1. The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organised and interpreted by the organism; includes speech discrimination. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auditory Perception

auditory hairs
auditory hallucination
auditory hyperesthesia
auditory image
auditory lemniscus
auditory localization
auditory meatus
auditory modality
auditory nerve
auditory nucleus
auditory oculogyric reflex
auditory organ
auditory ossicle
auditory ossicles
auditory pathway
auditory perception (current term)
auditory perceptual disorders
auditory pits
auditory placodes
auditory process
auditory receptor cells
auditory reflex
auditory sensation
auditory sense
auditory striae
auditory strings
auditory system
auditory teeth
auditory threshold
auditory tract

Literary usage of Auditory perception

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"... tending at the same time to translate a momentary focal auditory perception of the syllables into visual imagery of the syllables printed in large black ..."

2. Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice by Edward Bradford Titchener, ( (1901)
"... CHAPTER X auditory perception EXPERIMENT XXX § 45. The Degrees of Tonal Fusion. — Suppose that two simple tones are sounded together. ..."

3. The Human Mind by James Sully (1892)
"that of the higher reflective consciousness of self to be spoken of by-and-by.1 (c) auditory perception. § 29. Space-perception: (a) Genesis of Aural ..."

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