Auditory Localization Demonstrations

摘要

This collection of digitized sound examples was assembled for Ada Acustica to illustrate some interesting and important spatial hearing phenomena. The examples are grouped as follows: A listing of the announcements on the recording, keyed to CD-indices, is given at the end of this document. Except For the Franssen-effect examples in Section 7, the recordings are meant to be heard through headphones. In listening to these examples, it is best to close one's eyes and to try to avoid head motion, paying particular attention to perceived spatial locations of the sounds. Reading the text for each section before listening may also be helpful, since what one should attend to is not always obvious. Finally, it should be noted that while some of the phenomena are well known and easily replicable, others are not well understood and are not perceived in the same way by all listeners. This illustrates why spatial hearing continues to be such an active and interesting area of psychoacoustic research.