{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.hearing","code":"thing-q160289","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q160289/","name":"hearing","alternateNames":["Listening comprehension","hearing in autism spectrum disorder","Auditory Steady-State Response","central auditory processing","auditory event","pitch perception"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Hearing is the sensory process by which a living organism detects sound transmitted through air, water or other media and converts mechanical vibration into neural activity, supporting perception of sound characteristics according to the organism's auditory capabilities.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to explain auditory perception in living organisms, interpret hearing-related observations and support appropriate accessibility and hearing protection decisions.","scope":{"in":["Sound reception includes airborne, waterborne and other mechanically transmitted sound.","Auditory sensory structures convert mechanical stimulation into neural activity.","Auditory capabilities vary across species and individuals.","Perception may distinguish sound characteristics such as frequency, intensity and location.","Hearing impairment, noise exposure and accessibility needs inform appropriate support."],"out":["Legal and administrative hearings belong to a different sense.","Sound recording by a device is distinct from sensory perception by a living organism.","General acoustics is outside scope except where it explains auditory perception.","Clinical diagnosis and treatment protocols are outside this model.","The engineering of hearing aids and implants requires separate device models."],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Hearing involves biological sensory reception and neural processing of sound.","Sound can reach auditory structures through air, water or other media.","Auditory organs and detectable sound ranges differ among organisms.","Hearing is distinct from producing sound or recording it with a device.","The presence of sound does not establish that a particular organism can hear it."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"matter-and-remit","name":"Matter and remit","description":"Identifies why the hearing exists and what its recipient is empowered to hear.","layers":[{"id":"hearing-function","name":"Hearing function","description":"Establishes the hearing's purpose and relationship to a surrounding process.","findings":[{"id":"defined-matter-and-purpose","name":"Defined matter and purpose","description":"Record the issues presented and whether the hearing receives evidence, argument, representations, or another specified contribution.","questions":[{"text":"What matter and specific issues is this hearing convened to address?","id":"defined-matter-and-purpose-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What distinguishes this hearing's task from the surrounding case, investigation, or decision process?","id":"defined-matter-and-purpose-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"authority-and-procedure","name":"Authority and procedure","description":"Captures the basis and limits of the receiving body's procedural role.","findings":[{"id":"applicable-hearing-mandate","name":"Applicable hearing mandate","description":"Record who receives the hearing, which procedure applies, and what remains unverified about that authority.","questions":[{"text":"Which instrument, appointment, agreement, or recorded instruction establishes this hearing and its receiving authority?","id":"applicable-hearing-mandate-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which procedural actions may the recipient take, and which require another person or 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participant?","id":"participant-position-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"effective-participation","name":"Effective participation","description":"Tracks practical access to the opportunity to contribute.","findings":[{"id":"participation-barriers-and-support","name":"Participation barriers and support","description":"Record requested support, participation failures, and the procedural response without inferring that silence means consent.","questions":[{"text":"What language, accessibility, representation, or connection support is needed for each participant to follow and contribute?","id":"participation-barriers-and-support-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What action is authorised if absence, a failed connection, or another barrier prevents a participant from being heard?","id":"participation-barriers-and-support-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"representations-and-examination","name":"Representations and examination","description":"Tracks what is put before the hearing and how it may be tested or answered.","layers":[{"id":"material-before-the-hearing","name":"Material before the hearing","description":"Connects statements, documents, and other contributions to their origin and procedural treatment.","findings":[{"id":"submission-and-treatment","name":"Submission and treatment","description":"Record who supplied each contribution, which issue it concerns, and whether it was received, excluded, deferred, or otherwise treated.","questions":[{"text":"Who supplied this statement or item, when, and in relation to which hearing issue?","id":"submission-and-treatment-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What recorded direction or applicable rule determines how this material may be used in the hearing?","id":"submission-and-treatment-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"questioning-and-response","name":"Questioning and response","description":"Captures opportunities to clarify, challenge, or answer contributions.","findings":[{"id":"testing-and-reply-opportunities","name":"Testing and reply opportunities","description":"Record the permitted forms of questioning and reply, their use, and any restrictions or unresolved requests.","questions":[{"text":"Who may question a speaker or respond to a contribution, through what procedure and within what limits?","id":"testing-and-reply-opportunities-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"Which requests to question, clarify, or reply were granted, refused, deferred, or left unresolved?","id":"testing-and-reply-opportunities-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"session-conduct","name":"Session conduct","description":"Represents how the hearing proceeds across sessions and how procedural difficulties are handled.","layers":[{"id":"sitting-and-sequence","name":"Sitting and sequence","description":"Tracks sessions, issue order, time allocations, and continuity.","findings":[{"id":"session-progress","name":"Session progress","description":"Record which issues and contributions have been reached, what remains, and the current session state.","questions":[{"text":"Which planned issues and participant contributions have been heard, and which remain outstanding?","id":"session-progress-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What recorded conditions must be satisfied before opening, resuming, or closing this hearing?","id":"session-progress-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"directions-and-objections","name":"Directions and objections","description":"Captures procedural interventions and their effect on the opportunity to be heard.","findings":[{"id":"procedural-intervention","name":"Procedural intervention","description":"Record requests, objections, directions, and interruptions with their reasons and current disposition.","questions":[{"text":"What procedural issue was raised, by whom, and what response and reason were recorded?","id":"procedural-intervention-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the recorded response permit continuation, require an adjustment, or leave a condition unresolved?","id":"procedural-intervention-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"record-and-disposition","name":"Record and disposition","description":"Captures the durable account of the hearing and what its ending makes possible.","layers":[{"id":"hearing-record","name":"Hearing record","description":"Identifies the recognised record, gaps, corrections, and access conditions.","findings":[{"id":"record-authority-and-access","name":"Record authority and access","description":"Record which minutes, transcript, recording, or other account serves as the hearing record and how it may be corrected or disclosed.","questions":[{"text":"Which artefacts constitute the recognised hearing record, and what omissions or disputed passages are known?","id":"record-authority-and-access-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Who may inspect, correct, copy, or publish each part of the record under the recorded access conditions?","id":"record-authority-and-access-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"closure-and-handoff","name":"Closure and handoff","description":"Separates the hearing's procedural disposition from substantive outcomes.","findings":[{"id":"ending-and-outstanding-work","name":"Ending and outstanding work","description":"Record whether the hearing was closed, adjourned, or cancelled, together with pending contributions and links to subsequent action.","questions":[{"text":"What establishes the hearing's current disposition, and are further representations or sessions still permitted or required?","id":"ending-and-outstanding-work-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What next action follows from that disposition, who is authorised to take it, and which decision belongs to a separate model?","id":"ending-and-outstanding-work-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, 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regulation","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of hearing this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of hearing this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-measurements","name":"Typical measurements","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of hearing this model covers, and on what 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