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auditory

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


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When activity in either the auditory cortex or somatosensory cortex was disrupted, participants showed significantly poorer retention of the speech movements they had learned.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

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

When Felix and his quirky next-door neighbor Marigold find a wooden box labeled “Open Me” hidden away in a closet, they discover a recording device with an intriguing auditory riddle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 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

“I’m speaking very loudly, and you’re only three feet away. The elementary physics of sound waves assures me that you are receiving my auditory signals.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

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

Its future auditories will be the generations of men, as they rise up before it and gather round it’ Webster.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various




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