A dimension of auditory sensation varying with cycles per second of the sound stimulus.
The ability to differentiate tones.
Sound that expresses emotion through rhythm, melody, and harmony.
Electronic hearing devices typically used for patients with normal outer and middle ear function, but defective inner ear function. In the COCHLEA, the hair cells (HAIR CELLS, VESTIBULAR) may be absent or damaged but there are residual nerve fibers. The device electrically stimulates the COCHLEAR NERVE to create sound sensation.
Use of sound to elicit a response in the nervous system.
Acquired or developmental cognitive disorders of AUDITORY PERCEPTION characterized by a reduced ability to perceive information contained in auditory stimuli despite intact auditory pathways. Affected individuals have difficulty with speech perception, sound localization, and comprehending the meaning of inflections of speech.
The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted.
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).
The cochlear part of the 8th cranial nerve (VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE). The cochlear nerve fibers originate from neurons of the SPIRAL GANGLION and project peripherally to cochlear hair cells and centrally to the cochlear nuclei (COCHLEAR NUCLEUS) of the BRAIN STEM. They mediate the sense of hearing.
The region of the cerebral cortex that receives the auditory radiation from the MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY.
The audibility limit of discriminating sound intensity and pitch.
Measurement of hearing based on the use of pure tones of various frequencies and intensities as auditory stimuli.
Surgical insertion of an electronic hearing device (COCHLEAR IMPLANTS) with electrodes to the COCHLEAR NERVE in the inner ear to create sound sensation in patients with residual nerve fibers.
The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized, and interpreted by the organism.
The branch of physics that deals with sound and sound waves. In medicine it is often applied in procedures in speech and hearing studies. With regard to the environment, it refers to the characteristics of a room, auditorium, theatre, building, etc. that determines the audibility or fidelity of sounds in it. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptual effectiveness.
Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a subject has learned to respond.
The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience.
The real or apparent movement of objects through the visual field.
The perceiving of attributes, characteristics, and behaviors of one's associates or social groups.
The science pertaining to the interrelationship of psychologic phenomena and the individual's response to the physical properties of sound.
The acoustic aspects of speech in terms of frequency, intensity, and time.
The ability to estimate periods of time lapsed or duration of time.
The sounds produced by humans by the passage of air through the LARYNX and over the VOCAL CORDS, and then modified by the resonance organs, the NASOPHARYNX, and the MOUTH.
The graphic registration of the frequency and intensity of sounds, such as speech, infant crying, and animal vocalizations.
Perception of three-dimensionality.
The sensory discrimination of a pattern shape or outline.