Auditory

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Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing:

• Auditory system, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception.
• Sound, the physical signal perceived by the auditory system.
• Hearing (sense), is the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived.
• Ear, the auditory end organ.
• Cochlea, the auditory branch of the inner ear.
• Auditory illusion, sound trick analogous to an optical illusion.
• Primary auditory cortex, the part of the higher-level of the brain that serves hearing.
• External auditory meatus, the ear canal
• Auditory scene analysis, the process by which a scene containing many sounds is perceived
• Auditory phonetics, the science of the sounds of language
• Auditory imagery, hearing in head in the absence of sound