Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

align
annotate
download

Concept information

... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > perception (psychology) > audition > evolution of the auditory system
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > learning and perception > cognitive processes > perception (psychology) > audition > evolution of the auditory system

Preferred term

evolution of the auditory system  

Definition

  • In the broadest sense, hearing is the detection, classification (“what”), and localization (“where”) of mechanical disturbances of the surrounding medium. Such disturbances include sound—properly defined as longitudinal pressure waves propagating in an elastic medium—and other mechanical waves. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Auditory System: Evolution of]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VXK5BHV6-F

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD