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auditory

[aw-di-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee-] / ˈɔ dɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i- /


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Instead of highlighting motor regions as the main driver of speech learning, the research suggests that auditory and somatosensory systems are critical for acquiring and retaining new speech patterns.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

If we aren’t receiving that auditory input, it can affect our walking speed, doctors say.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

"We found that the internal focus promoted by eye closure actually works against you in this context, leading to over-filtering, whereas visual engagement helps anchor the auditory system to the external world."

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2026

Many autistic people require additional time to process auditory input and verbal responses, particularly in unfamiliar circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2026

They dealt only with experimental data and were filled with graphs, charts, tables, photographs of devices for the measuring of auditory, visual, and tactile responses, and with mathematical translations of laboratory findings.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

It cannot be said that much harm has resulted from the full liberty permitted him, or that neglect on his part has impaired the generally attractive aspect of our theatrical auditories.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

There is another scruple cast in by divinity concerning its production, much disputed in the German auditories, and with that indifferency and equality of arguments, as leave the controversy undetermined.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

Let us, then, contemplate a little closer the different kinds of concerts—their features and their character—their performers and their auditories.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

At the start these ladies delivered their message to women only, but by-and-bye as the fame of their eloquence spread men began to appear among their auditories.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

These Lectures, in their original form, were delivered at Geneva, and afterwards at Lausanne, before two auditories which together numbered about two thousand five hundred men.

From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Downton, Henry




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