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Auditory Perception

Medical Definition:	The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized and interpreted by the organism; includes speech discrimination.
Guide Notes:	differentiate from HEARING: aud percept takes place in the brain, hearing takes place in the ear: TN 98
Previously Indexed:	Hearing (1966),Perception (1966)

Auditory Perception Categories.

	Auditory Threshold - The audibility limit of discriminating sound intensity and pitch.
	Loudness Perception - The perceived attribute of a sound which corresponds to the physical attribute of intensity.
	Perceptual Masking - The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptual effectiveness.
	Pitch Perception - A dimension of auditory sensation varying with cycles per second of the sound stimulus.
	Sound Localization - Ability to determine the specific location of a sound source.
	Speech Perception - The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequences of phonetic segments which combine to form lexical and grammatical morphemes).

Auditory Perception Medical Definitions and Terms

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