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  2. 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 ...

  3. Brownian noise - Wikipedia

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    In science, Brownian noise, also known as Brown noise or red noise, is the type of signal noise produced by Brownian motion, hence its alternative name of random walk noise. The term "Brown noise" does not come from the color , but after Robert Brown , who documented the erratic motion for multiple types of inanimate particles in water.

  4. Diplacusis - Wikipedia

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    If one ear has normal thresholds while the other has sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), diplacusis may be present, as much as 15–20% (for example 200 Hz one ear => 240 Hz in the other). [citation needed] The pitch may be difficult to match because the SNHL ear hears the sound "fuzzy". Bilateral SNHL gives less diplacusis, but pitch ...

  5. Red ear syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Red ear syndrome (RES) is a rare disorder of unknown etiology which was originally described in 1994. The defining symptom of red ear syndrome is redness of one or both external ears, accompanied by a burning sensation. [1] A variety of treatments have been tried with limited success. [1]

  6. What 'secret' loudspeaker codes mean at department stores - AOL

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    Walmart security watches shoppers enter on Black Friday This "code" is one of many innocuous sounding secret codes that stores use to alert employees to problems without distracting you from shopping.

  7. Auditory processing disorder - Wikipedia

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    Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting the way the brain processes sounds. [2] Individuals with APD usually have normal structure and function of the ear, but cannot process the information they hear in the same way as others do, which leads to difficulties in recognizing and interpreting sounds, especially the sounds composing speech.

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    Easy setup. The Avantree Ensemble headphones are a snap to set up. Just plug the transmitter into the proper port on your TV — it will most likely look like a headphone jack, or the same port ...

  9. Spatial hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    Spatial hearing loss refers to a form of deafness that is an inability to use spatial cues about where a sound originates from in space. Poor sound localization in turn affects the ability to understand speech in the presence of background noise.