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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

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

Effects of informal music activities on auditory discrimination and attention in 2–3-year-old children.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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