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Virtual Auditory Space: Generation and Applications

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One of the greatest and most enduring of intellectual quests is that of self understanding. What we understand and the intellectual models that we manipulate in the process of applying that understanding are intimately related to what we perceive of the world. Our perceptions are in turn related to the structure of our sense organs and to the brain itself. The neurosciences represent a rapidly growing body of knowledge and ideas about the marvelous machinery of the brain1 and are making an increasingly important contribution to this process. There is now a considerable understanding of the basic operation of the five senses of extero-reception: vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Our perception of our environment necessarily involves these five senses together with the senses of balance and body position (proprioception). The richness of our perception is clearly heightened by the complex combinations of these senses. For example, the successful restaurant generates a sensual experience that goes well beyond the simple satiation of hunger. The lighting and furnishings generate a mood that is relaxed and comfortable, the smells relate to the food and the conversation of other diners is muted and combines with the background music to generate a sense of communion and yet privacy.

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Carlile, S. (1996). Auditory Space. In: Virtual Auditory Space: Generation and Applications. Neuroscience Intelligence Unit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22594-3_1

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