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audition  

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  • 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]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/audition

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