auditory

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Auditory

Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing:

Auditory system, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception.
- Auditory bulla, part of auditory system found in mammals other than primates.
- Auditory nerve, also known as the cochlear nerve is one of two parts of a cranial nerve.
- Auditory ossicles, three bones in the middle ear that transmit sounds.
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 hallucination,a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus
Auditory imagery, hearing in head in the absence of sound