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  2. Misophonia - Wikipedia

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    Seeing someone making or about to make a sound that bothers you, even if you can't hear it (e.g., seeing someone reach into a bag of chips, seeing someone eating on TV with the volume off). Hearing any sound from selective despised individuals or specific races. (e.g., hearing verbal conversation from hated neighbors).

  3. Yanny or Laurel - Wikipedia

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    The mixed re-recording was created by students who played the sound of the word "laurel" while re-recording the playback amid background noise in the room. [4] The audio clip of the main word "laurel" originated in 2007 from a recording of opera singer Jay Aubrey Jones, [5] who spoke the word "laurel" [6] as one of 200,000 reference pronunciations produced and published by vocabulary.com in 2007.

  4. Auditory agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Persons with auditory agnosia can physically hear the sounds and describe them using unrelated terms, but are unable to recognize them. They might describe the sound of some environmental sounds, such as a motor starting, as resembling a lion roaring, but would not be able to associate the sound with "car" or "engine", nor would they say that ...

  5. Help:Media (audio and video) - Wikipedia

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    All modern browsers will play video (Theora and WebM) and audio (Vorbis and MP3) files from Wikipedia, no modifications needed. On older iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices, software decoding will be used. This might be a bit slow compared to what you are used to on such devices. Internet Explorer is NOT supported.

  6. Hearing range - Wikipedia

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    When the subject hears the sound, they indicate this by raising a hand or pressing a button. The lowest intensity they can hear is recorded. The test varies for children; their response to the sound can be indicated by a turn of the head or by using a toy. The child learns what to do upon hearing the sound, such as placing a toy man in a boat.

  7. The Mosquito - Wikipedia

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    The Mosquito or Mosquito alarm is a machine used to deter loitering by emitting sound at high frequency. In some versions, it is intentionally tuned to be heard primarily by younger people. Nicknamed "Mosquito" for the buzzing sound it plays, the device is marketed as a safety and security tool for preventing youths from congregating in ...

  8. Infrasound - Wikipedia

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    Nobody had conceived that sound might exist at such low frequencies, and so no equipment had been developed to detect it. Eventually, it was determined that the sound inducing the nausea was a 7 cycle per second infrasound wave that was inducing a resonant mode in the ductwork and architecture of the building, significantly amplifying the sound ...

  9. Speech sound disorder - Wikipedia

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    Deltacism (from the Greek letter Δ) is a difficulty in producing /d/ sound. [2] Etacism is a difficulty in producing e sound. [2] Gamacism is a difficulty in producing /ɡ/ sound. [2] Hitism is a difficulty in producing /h/ sound. [3] Iotacism is a difficulty in producing /j/ sound. [4] Kapacism is a difficulty in producing /k/ sound. [2]