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Sounds in the environment can alert, educate, entertain, or just annoy us. The information conveyed by sounds consists of time-varying streams or patterns of auditory attributes such as loudness, duration, pitch, and timbre. Extracting this information requires decoding the patterns in order to determine, for example, which attributes belong to which sound-producing objects. An important component of this source segregation process is the apparent spatial position of each object, its direction, and its distance from the listener. “Sound localization” is the term normally used to refer to the processes by which the apparent position of an object is determined.
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Wightman, F.L., Kistler, D.J. (1993). Sound Localization. In: Yost, W.A., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Human Psychophysics. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2728-1_5
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