This paper reports on the acute effects of a monaural plug on directional hearing in the
horizontal (azimuth) and vertical (elevation) planes of human listeners. Sound localization …

Human sound localization results primarily from the processing of binaural differences in
sound level and arrival time for locations in the horizontal plane (azimuth) and of spectral …

Human sound localization relies on binaural difference cues for sound-source azimuth and
pinna-related spectral shape cues for sound elevation. Although the interaural timing and …

Normal-hearing listeners adapt to alterations in sound localization cues. This adaptation can
result from the establishment of a new spatial map of the altered cues or from a stronger …

Sound localization in the horizontal (azimuth) plane relies mainly on interaural time
differences (ITDs) and interaural level differences (ILDs). Both are distorted in listeners with …

For human listeners, cues for vertical-plane localization are provided by direction-dependent
pinna filtering. This study quantified listeners' weighting of the spectral cues from each ear …

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Physical and Physiological Mechanisms
Underlying Auditory Localization Spatial Perception of Single Sources Spatial Perception of …

Monaurally deaf people lack the binaural acoustic difference cues in sound level and timing
that are needed to encode sound location in the horizontal plane (azimuth). It has been …

The influence of selectively filtering a broadband stimulus on binaural localization was
investigated. First, head-related-transfer-functions were obtained by placing a miniature …

Physiological studies of spatial hearing show that the spatial receptive fields of cortical
neurons typically are narrow at near-threshold levels, broadening at moderate levels. The …