Traditional tests of auditory discrimination require children to match successively-presented syllables in short term memory. In the normal course of events perceptual confusions occur as a mismatch between an utterance and stored linguistic data. A speech sound perception task based on matching-to-memory was constructed and administered to 80…

Just as the perceptual act of seeing and the higher cerebral process involved in reading are not identical, "listening" at the signal level of auditory perception is different from the act of auditory symbol comprehension known as "auding." Definitions of auding and contrasts between this process and the act of listening have been offered by Don…