auditory signal

collocation in English

meaningsofauditoryandsignal

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auditory
adjective
uk
/ˈɔː.dɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈɑː.də.tɔːr.i/
of or ...
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signal
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/us
/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/
an action, movement, or sound that gives information, a message, a warning, or ...
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(Definition ofauditoryandsignalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Touches to the target image produced a unique, reinforcing,auditorysignalbut touches to the distractor did not.
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The tern chicks were responding to very finely-grained properties of theauditorysignal, and apparently neglecting even the most obvious of visual properties discernible in the situation.
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The only certain signal which will penetrate to the speaker who is in full flow is anauditorysignal.
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The process of perceiving speech begins at the level of the sound within theauditorysignaland the process of audition.
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After processing the initialauditorysignal, speech sounds are further processed to extract acoustic cues and phonetic information.
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Like some other rockfish, this species can produce anauditorysignalin the form of a low-frequency pulsing noise.
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This compensation effect results in an increase in theauditorysignal-to-noise ratio of the speakers spoken words.
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This level difference between the two ears allows humans to accurately predict azimuth of anauditorysignal.
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The effect occurs when missing phonemes in anauditorysignalare replaced with white noise, resulting in the brain filling in absent phonemes.
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Integration only appears if visual stimuli is used to improve performance when theauditorysignalis impoverished but audible.
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Thus, each of the listener's eardrums is driven with a replica of theauditorysignalit would have experienced at the recording location.
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The genetic basis of differences in visual and/or auditory signals between species has been explored by the use of backcrosses between species.
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Other microphones were placed discreetly throughout the room and a control panel of mixers balanced the auditory signals.
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Only by listening to the city sounds in the context of all the auditory signals (and other signs) could their full significance be grasped.
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Echolocation devices provide auditory signals which depend on the direction, distance, size, and surface texture of nearby objects, but they provide no detailed shape information.
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Town gates were opened and closed at particular times, accompanied by auditory signals to warn the population.
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Examples of animals which use auditory signals include birds, frogs and canids.
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Future research in this area hopes to further explain how the chemical and auditory signals are processed and mapped to behaviors in the fly's brain.
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Striking body parts together can also produce auditory signals.
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