# heard (auditory)

to receive a sound

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: auditory  ·  Arena: heard

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [sound](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sound.auditory), [auditory](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-auditory.sensory), [receive](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-receive.communication)

**Through:** when sound moves and auditory receives it

**Novel properties:**
- sound reception
- auditory input
- reception event

## Examples
- The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico detected faint radio waves from pulsar PSR B1919+21 in 1967. *(astronomy)*
- A bat's echolocation call at 45 kHz is registered by its auditory cortex during night flight. *(biology)*
- The 1977 'Wow!' signal was recorded by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [talk](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-talk.spoken) (L9)

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