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auditory

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


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

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Sleep-deprived participants had slower reactions, or missed visual and auditory cues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

The two-year program would study premature infants responded to auditory stimulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

To test how well the turtles hear, researchers attached noninvasive sensors to the turtles' heads and recorded the electrical activity traveling along their auditory nerves.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2026

Because the visual sense is not viable at this point, the auditory senses are primary, and hearing is the most keenly developed of all of the fetal senses.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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