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acuity [ə′kyü·ə·dē] (biology) Sharpness of sense perception, as of vision or hearing. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| A soldier with normal auditory acuity can hear footsteps at 100 meters, voices at 180 meters, and a rifle bolt closing at 1000 meters. Auditory Acuity Difficulties involve problems with taking in information through the sense of hearing and/ or processing that information. I decided that, in the Jamaican setting, two of the most useful test items would measure not skills like vocabulary or arithmetic or spatial visualization--the things Binet measured--but auditory acuity and auditory selective attention. |
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