Echoic

coccyx: 1615, from Gk. kokkyx "cuckoo" from kokku, like the bird's Eng. name echoic of its cry, so called by ancient Gk. physician Galen because the bone in humans supposedly resembles a cuckoo's beak. ❋ News From Mad Plato (2007)

He watched as the two entered, the occasionally stiff, not-quite-human movements of the new android echoic of its—of her—creator. ❋ David R. George III (2010)

Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I remember as she said his name, I had one of those echoic moments. ❋ Amy Yasbeck (2010)

I've been exploring an alternative origin of this word, not from an echoic origin, but rather as a possible Semitic loan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a bat's case, I have speculated, it might be surfaces of different echoic properties or textures, perhaps red for shiny, blue for velvety, green for abrasive. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)

The swimmer, the dreamer—he had no sense of himself as himself yet—heard a voice, echoic and distorted. ❋ Jonathan Nasaw (2003)

Superstition and Revelation is as echoic -- as allusive, if you will -- as any text in Hemans. ❋ Unknown (1998)

In Stage 1, sensations immediately received (without requiring any focused attention) by the primary sensory cortex are initially stored in the sensory memory “store” (ultra-short-term store, echoic/iconic memory). ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

The confusion of sound which our critic complains of is not to be remedied merely by silencing the chorus of echoic voices. ❋ Elizabeth Atkins (N/A)

Guardian sound of the South Seas it is, the hushed, echoic roar of a ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

The present findings suggest that temporal representation of echoic memory is non-linear and Weber-Fechner law holds for the automatic cortical response to sound changes within a suprathreshold range. ❋ Koji Inui (2010)

Here we used an auditory change-related N1 subcomponent (change-N1) of event-related brain potentials to investigate cortical mechanisms underlying change detection and echoic memory. ❋ Koji Inui (2010)

Along the narrative trail-a deceptively simple yarn about a neurotic, mid-life man obsessed with a woman whose stolen wallet he finds-we are peppered with fleeting shots of a stolen purse, a fate-goosing found wallet, a fatefully unzipped fly, and, yes, echoic shots of the wild grasses which grow outside of humanity's control. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Certainly the former style is far easier to swallow than the latter - the faithful pogo and batter out metronomic handclaps with the echoic tempos. ❋ John Skibeat (2010)

Since the present results show that the behavior of echoic memory can be understood through change-N1, change-N1 would be a useful tool to investigate memory systems. ❋ Koji Inui (2010)

The instrumentation throughout the record has a lilting quality similar to Dylan's 'Pat Garret' soundtrack: slow, almost lazy guitars drifting over the echoic vocals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sensory memories are what a Georgia Tech professor says exist for each sensory channel: iconic, echoic and haptic for visual, aural or tactile stimuli, respectively. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Echoic memory] is one type of [sensory] memory process. Specifically, [echoic memory] is sensory memory associated with auditory information received from the environment. The term echoic stems from the word [echo], which is in reference to the brief echo, or the reverberation of sound that is transmitted neurologically via this type of sensory memory. ❋ Meow_Kat (2016)