Auditory development involves changes in the peripheral and central nervous system along
the auditory pathways, and these occur naturally, and in response to stimulation. Human …

In ordinary listening environments, acoustic signals reaching the ears directly from real
sound sources are followed after a few milliseconds by early reflections arriving from nearby …

Now available in a sixth edition, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing is the leading
textbook in the field of auditory perception, also known as psychoacoustics. The textbooks …

Spatial hearing, and more specifically the ability to localize sounds in space, is one of the
most studied and best understood aspects of hearing. Because there is no coding of …

The precedence effect refers to the fact that humans are able to localize sound in
reverberant environments, because the auditory system assigns greater weight to the direct …

Normal-hearing human listeners and a variety of studied animal species localize sound
sources accurately in reverberant environments by responding to the directional cues …

When a person hears sounds in the environment, there are several important tasks that the
auditory system must accomplish, such as determining the location of sound sources and …

The precedence effect (PE) refers to the dominance of directional information carried by a
direct sound (lead) over the spatial information contained in its multiple reflections (lags) in …

The human cochlea includes about 3000 inner hair cells which filter sounds at frequencies
between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. This massively parallel frequency analysis is reflected in models …

Computational modeling has a central role in understanding the mechanisms behind
experimental observations. This chapter describes how models of binaural processing are …