AUDITORY PERCEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory perception mean? 

• AUDITORY PERCEPTION (noun)
  The noun AUDITORY PERCEPTION has 1 sense:

1. the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon

  Familiarity information: AUDITORY PERCEPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDITORY PERCEPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

auditory perception; sound perception

Hypernyms ("auditory perception" is a kind of...):

perception (the process of perceiving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auditory perception"):

speech perception (the auditory perception (and comprehension) of speech)

musical perception (the auditory perception of musical sounds)

 Context examples 

To identify whether there are aspects of auditory perception that are universal across cultures, McDermott and his team have traveled into places ranging from Boston to remote Amazonia, where they record sounds ranging from the clatter of a noisy diner to the stillness of a woodland path.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)