Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in Auditory Perception.
- Audio Localization (Sound Localization, Auditory Localization)
- The ability to identify the location of a sound source in space using auditory cues such as interaural time differences (the slight delay between sound reaching each ear) and interaural level differen…
- Psychoacoustics
- The branch of perceptual psychology that studies how humans subjectively perceive sound - loudness, pitch, timbre, spatial location, foreground/background segregation, and masking. Psychoacoustic prin…
- Rapid Auditory Processing (RAP, Auditory Temporal Processing)
- The ability to perceive and process rapidly changing auditory signals that occur within tens of milliseconds, such as the rapid frequency and amplitude transitions that characterise speech sounds. Rap…
- Tinnitus (Ringing in the Ears)
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound - most commonly ringing, buzzing, or hissing - without a corresponding external source. It can be continuous or intermittent, uni- or bilateral, and ranges from mil…