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auditory

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


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“You don’t want this for your kid,” said Marni Levine, a college counselor from Marlboro, N.J., whose now-adult daughter was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

"When you stimulate these serotonergic neurons, we can see that it stimulates activity in the auditory region in the brain," Trussell said.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Brain implants will provide all the auditory and visual stimulation needed to simulate any form of live entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 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

The auditory cortex also recognizes the location of different sound sources in space, and can identify and segregate different auditory objects.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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