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  2. Psychoacoustics - Wikipedia

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    Psychoacoustics is the branch of psychophysics involving the scientific study of the perception of sound by the human auditory system.It is the branch of science studying the psychological responses associated with sound including noise, speech, and music.

  3. Stretching (body piercing) - Wikipedia

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    Stretching, in the context of body piercing, is the deliberate expansion of a healed piercing for the purpose of wearing certain types of jewelry. Ear piercings are the most commonly stretched piercings, [1] with nasal septum piercings, tongue piercings and lip piercings/lip plates following close behind. [2]

  4. Auditory illusion - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] [6] Auditory illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic survival tools, differentiate from perfect audio receptors; this shows that it is possible for a human being to hear something that is not there and be able to react to the sound they supposedly heard. When someone is experiencing an auditory illusion ...

  5. Auditory science - Wikipedia

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    Auditory science or hearing science is a field of research and education concerning the perception of sounds by humans, animals, or machines. It is a heavily interdisciplinary field at the crossroad between acoustics, neuroscience, and psychology. [1]

  6. Sound localization - Wikipedia

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    Sound is the perceptual result of mechanical vibrations traveling through a medium such as air or water. Through the mechanisms of compression and rarefaction, sound waves travel through the air, bounce off the pinna and concha of the exterior ear, and enter the ear canal.

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    At “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” where your favorite celebrities and public figures smile from ear-to-ear strolling down their personalized Spirit Tunnel, which has captured so many hearts online.

  8. Critical band - Wikipedia

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    The human ear is made up of three areas: the outer, middle and inner ear. Within the inner ear sits the cochlea. The cochlea is a snail-shaped formation that enables sound transmission via a sensorineural route, rather than through a conductive pathway. [11] The cochlea is a complex structure, consisting of three layers of fluid.

  9. Plug (jewellery) - Wikipedia

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    Surgical steel flesh tunnels in four different gauges. A flesh tunnel is a hollow, tube-shaped variety of body piercing jewelry. It is also sometimes referred to as a spool, fleshy, earlet, expander, or eyelet. A flesh tunnel is usually used in stretched or scalpelled piercings. Flesh tunnels are made in smaller gauges.