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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

percepção auditiva

Pronunciation / Transliteration: peʁ.sepˈsãw ow.diˈtʃi.vɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Auditory perception/ˈɔː.dɪ.tər.i pəˈsɛp.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O teste avalia a capacidade de percepção auditiva dos pacientes."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The ability of the brain to receive, interpret, and make sense of sounds through the ear and neural pathways.

    "Fine-tuned auditory perception is essential for musicians to distinguish subtle pitch variations."
  2. 2

    The psychological process by which the brain organizes and analyzes acoustic signals from the environment.

    "The study measured how spatial auditory perception allows humans to locate the source of a sound in a crowded room."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'auditory,' derived from the Latin 'audire' (to hear) via Late Latin 'auditorius,' and 'perception,' originating from the Latin 'perceptio' (a collecting, seizing, or perception), from 'percipere.' Established in modern psychological and physiological terminology during the late 19th century to describe the cognitive process of interpreting sound.

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