Auditory Perception

Definition

The process of interpreting and understanding sound stimuli through the auditory system. It involves receiving, organizing, and making sense of auditory information.

Related terms

Sound Localization: The ability to determine the location or direction from which a sound is coming. For example, being able to tell if a car horn is coming from your left or right.

Auditory Discrimination: The skill of distinguishing between different sounds in terms of their qualities such as pitch, loudness, and timbre.

Temporal Coding: The mechanism by which the brain encodes the timing or temporal aspects of sound waves for processing auditory information accurately.