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auditory

[aw-di-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee-]

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Anatomy, Physiology. pertaining to hearing, to the sense of hearing, or to the organs of hearing.

perceived through or resulting from the sense of hearing: auditory hallucinations.

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noun Archaic.

an assembly of hearers; audience.

an auditorium, especially the nave of a church.

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a muscular and cartilaginous structure lined with mucous membrane at the upper part of the trachea in humans, where the vocal cords are located

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin audītōrius relating to hearing. See auditor, -tory¹

Related forms

au·di·to·ri·ly, au·di·to·ri·al·ly, adverb

post·au·di·to·ry, adjective

pre·au·di·to·ry, adjective

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Auditory hallucinations have long been understood as a sign of severe mental illness.

Auditory hallucinations are common so it's not implausible that olfactory hallucinations can also occur.

Scientific curiosity about the auditory system dates back to the mid-19th century.

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Auditory hallucinations have long been understood as a sign of severe mental illness.

Auditory hallucinations are common so it's not implausible that olfactory hallucinations can also occur.

Scientific curiosity about the auditory system dates back to the mid-19th century.

But selective auditory attendance in humans is mostly a trick of the mind.

Not only schizophrenics experience auditory hallucinations.

If there is a genetic component to auditory processing, identicals should score more similarly than fraternal twins do.

Music only excites us when it makes our auditory cortex struggle to uncover its order.

Recently, however, a small group of scientists has begun studying auditory hallucinations more intensively.

His interpretation is that this is an auditory hallucination, and he may be right.

His symptoms were chiefly auditory hallucination and paranoid ideation.

We hear when the cochlea, in the inner ear, stimulates the auditory nerve.

Researchers rewired ferret brains, so that the optical nerve fed into the auditory cortex, and vice versa.

These people bore a greater risk for auditory nerve tumors on the side they used the phone.

The system is warming up, and refining a detailed auditory map.

From cubicles to coffeeshops to home offices, potential auditory distractions abound.

The surprising result is that the ferrets develop fully functioning visual pathways in the auditory portions of their brains.

Happy-Neuron addresses both visual and auditory training.

Data sonification is simply the auditory equivalent of data visualization.

Thanks to a having a kid with auditory sensitivities, we've become a family with lots of the big clunky ear protectors.

Exercising auditory regions helps to rewire the brain.

The creation of a cross-species auditory language has never been done before.

It is also the noisiest, with a supersound system designed to fuse auditory with visual environment.

Structures can be designed to create auditory effects.

The electrodes strobe on and off to stimulate the auditory nerves.

Such auditory overreacting, the scientists say, could be a survival mechanism.

They send data to the auditory nerve but have no way of picking up the brain's response to the ear to modulate sound.

Electrochemical impulses stream into the auditory cortex of a listener's brain.

Presumably, this device produced an auditory alarm that was easy to distinguish quickly.

Your auditory nerve adjusts automatically to the intensity of sound stimulation.

While the game provides plenty of auditory and visual cues, a good partner will make all the difference.

And probably not auditory because it's so noisy in the hive.

Hunters benefit from language and auditory skills as well as depth perception and the ability to abstract.

He studies synaptic processing and plasticity in the auditory system.

Our auditory systems can detect a range of frequencies.

In addition, candidates should have a strong collateral focus and expertise in an important area of auditory perception.

The right auditory environment can also deliver a jolt to revenue.

The multi-faceted artist sees a future in which artists change our auditory experiences.

For the first time, the study establishes a causal link between particular auditory regions and vision enhancements.

Auditory information is processed through the medial segment of the nucleus.

Pulse, a visual and auditory celebration of diversity and culture, rhythm and humanity.

It has none of the birds' visual and auditory humor.

With me, the auditory hallucinations were likely side.

His study also shows that these hallucinations are different from the auditory hallucinations of people with schizophrenia.

If you are an auditory learner, read your roster aloud.

Use a timer or some auditory signal to let you know when to move.

Indeed, tinnitus can be intense in people with hearing loss and even those whose auditory nerves have been completely severed.

Speech recognition and speech playback software expand the realizations of text into auditory as well as visual experiences.

And that is the aspect of what is heard, which relates to the hard-wiring of auditory perception.

The brain's auditory cortex reacts to and categorizes stimuli even when you only see the sound being produced and can't hear.

Feedback could be visual or auditory messages describing the target person's mental state.

The researchers suggest that two things might be happening in the auditory cortex to bring about the improvement.

But to fully appreciate the auditory experience, a solo intrumental piece is perhaps the best.

The results invariably showed reactiviation in either the visual or auditory cortex, depending on the memory.

The mental pathways for music are complex, sometimes including not only auditory areas but also the visual cortex of the brain.

Game players showed a similar speed advantage on an auditory task.

Candidates for cochlear implants have severe sensorineural hearing loss in both ears but still have a healthy auditory nerve.

He was also known for his physiological studies of the inner ear and the auditory nerve's electrical responses.

Found in the middle ear, they are a part of the auditory system between the eardrum and.

Whether or not he has a learning disability, if reading is difficult for him, he may be an auditory learner.

It seems likely to me that musicians pick up on visual and auditory clues from one another.

Imaging studies show that excited nerves signal from the auditory system to activate expectation and reward centers in the brain.

It meant that elephants communicated at frequencies beyond human auditory senses.

Best of all, it embraced me with an auditory ambience of coziness and warmth.

Musical training shapes functional brain networks for selective auditory attention and hearing speech in noise.

Tinnitus, or constant ringing in the ears, is a type of auditory phantom.

Still another method is auditory verbal therapy, which teaches the maximum use of hearing aids without lip reading.

In compensation, his auditory sense developed keenly.

Auditory stimulation plays a small role, and the other.

The key symptoms are delusions and auditory hallucinations.

It is a pleasure to have the richness transferred from the ocular to the auditory realm, for once in a way.

It's a plant with big leaves resembling pachydermal auditory organs.

Olfactory sensing pathways in the brain lead more directly to the hippocampus than visual and auditory ones.

And auditory storytelling stimulates areas of the brain involved with creativity, contextual thinking and executive function.

The hair cells transmit signals received from the bones in the middle ear to the auditory nerve, which sends them to the brain.

Swisher has also shown an awareness of appropriate auditory etiquette.

His blindness strengthened his already deep connection to the auditory world.

Auditory hallucinations are false senses of sound such as hearing voices that go unheard by others.

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auditory (ˈɔːdɪtərɪ, -trɪ)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to hearing, the sense of hearing, or the organs of hearing

—n
2.	audience an archaic word for auditorium

[C14: from Latin audītōrius relating to hearing, from audīre to hear]

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Word Origin & History

auditory

1570s, from L. auditorius "pertaining to hearing," from auditor "hearer" (see audience).

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Medical Dictionary

auditory au·di·to·ry (ô'dĭ-tôr'ē)
adj.
Of or relating to hearing, the organs of hearing, or the sense of hearing.

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Science Dictionary

auditory

(ô'dĭ-tôr'ē) Pronunciation Key
Relating to or involving the organs or sense of hearing.