Concept information
Preferred term
audition
Definition
- It seems likely that audition, commonly known as hearing, initially evolved to alert organisms to significant events in the environment. Unlike visual stimuli, sounds can be detected whatever their direction of incidence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Audition]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- absolute pitch
- acoustics and concert halls
- ageing and hearing
- American Sign Language
- animal frequency and pitch perception
- aphasia
- audiology
- audition disorders
- auditory agnosia
- auditory frequency selectivity
- auditory illusions
- auditory imagery
- auditory localization
- auditory masking
- auditory receptors and transduction
- auditory scene analysis
- auditory system structure
- auditory thresholds
- central auditory processing
- cochlear implants: controversy
- cochlear implants: technology
- cognitive influences on audition
- computer speech perception
- echolocation
- evoked potential: audition
- evolution of the auditory system
- guidance systems for blind people
- hearing
- hearing aids
- infant music perception
- intermodal perception
- language
- lightning and thunder
- loudness
- melody perception
- mirror neurons
- multimodal interactions: tactile-auditory
- multimodal interactions: visual-auditory
- music cognition and perception
- music in film
- neural auditory frequency analysis
- otoacoustic emissions
- overstimulation of the auditory system
- perception of computer-generated speech
- peripheral auditory processing
- physiology of auditory localization
- pitch perception
- sound reproduction and perception
- sound stimulus
- speech perception
- speech perception: physiological
- speech production
- speechreading
- statistical learning
- synesthesia
- temporal factors in audition
- timbre perception
- tinnitus
- unconscious processes
- virtual reality: auditory
- word recognition
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/audition
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