auditory agnosia

loss or impairment of the ability to recognize and understand the nature of verbal or nonverbal sounds. Subtypes are distinguished on the basis of the type of auditory stimulus the person has difficulty recognizing, for example, environmental sounds such as a dog barking or keys jingling (nonverbal auditory agnosia or environmental sounds agnosia), spoken words (pure word deafness), or music (sensory amusia).

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Psychology term of the day

November 19th 2024

neophobia

1. a persistent and irrational fear of change or of anything new, unfamiliar, or strange.

2. the avoidance of new stimuli, especially foods. —neophobic adj.