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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

December 20th 2024

anima

anima

n.

1. in the earlier writings of Carl Jung, a person’s innermost being, which is in closest contact with the unconscious and is contrasted with the persona, or the externally directed part of a person.

2. in Jung’s later writings, (a) an archetype that represents universal feminine characteristics or (b) the unconscious feminine aspect of the male psyche. Compare animus.