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auditory sensation

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Noun1.auditory sensation - the subjective sensation of hearing somethingauditory sensation - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"
aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch"
euphony, music - any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes"
music - (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
pure tone, tone - a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
dissonance, noise, racket - the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
dub - the new sounds added by dubbing


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Timbre is the auditory sensation that enables a listener to judge that two sounds presented with the same loudness and pitch are dissimilar, e.
The colors which were selected for the first iPod campaigns were brisk and full of live: turquoise, cyclamen, bright grass green and other joyful nuances were chosen to represent the idea of both music and video, meaning both visual and auditory sensations.
Given that the prefrontal cortex might modulate auditory processing activity, one would expect that stimulation of this area--with TMS, for example--might indeed interfere with auditory sensation, and presumably tinnitus.
 
 
 
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