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Sound Localization

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Human Psychophysics

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 3))

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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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  1. Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    William A. Yost

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Arthur N. Popper

  3. Parmly Hearing Institute and Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    Richard R. Fay

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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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