The psychophysics of human sound localization jens blauert. Spatial hearing refers to the capacity of listeners to infer information about spatial hearing. The shq is an english as chairman of communication. Pdf on jan 1, 2001, jens blauert and others published spatial hearing. Acoustics20083370 a history of binaural interaction. Please contact a member of library staff for further information. Spatial sound electrical engineering columbia university. Jens blauerts classic work on acoustics was first published in. Read spatial hearing, the american journal of physics on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available. Heyser distinguished lecturer at the aes 114th convention and author of the landmark 1974 book raumliches horen and its english translation spatial hearing 1983, revised 1997. Selecting this option will search all publications across the scitation platform selecting this option will search. Article pdf available in the journal of the acoustical society of america. Article pdf available in the journal of the acoustical.
This revised edition adds a new chapter that describes developments in such areas as auditory virtual reality an important field of application that is. The accuracy of horizontal sound localization is generally highest for frontal sound sources and decreases with in creasing lateral angle. The psychophysics of human sound localization by jens blauert article pdf available in the journal of the acoustical society of america 771. Culling and akeroyd 2010 authored a dynamic and comprehensive chapter on spatial hearing, in which they note that spatial hearing is almost totally underpinned by binaural hearing. This option allows users to search by publication, volume and page selecting this option will search the current publication in context. Spatial hearing refers to the capacity of listeners to infer information about direction and distance from auditory signals. The journal of the institute for radio engineering wrote of the first edition that the literature in this field is so fragmented and scattered that it is virtually inaccessible to most audio engineers, telecommunications technicians, and others for whom it is of vital interest. What audio engineers should know about human sound. That is, spatial hearing is based on the comparison of acoustic information perceived at one ear as comparedcontrasted to acoustic information perceived at the other. The journal of the acoustical society of america 77, 334. Spatial hearing, the american journal of physics 10. Spatial hearing jens blauert bok bokus one kind is the hearing we are born with the book also includes an extensive and up to. Jens blauert the field of spatial hearing has exploded in the decade or so since jens blauerts classic work on acoustics was first published in english. The psychophysics of human sound localization by jens blauert.
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This revised edition adds a new chapter that describes developments in such areas as auditory virtual reality an important field of application that is based mainly on the physics of spatial hearing, binaural technology modeling speech. Spatial hearing and sound localization mechanisms in. Spatial hearing bridges the gap that separates primarily. Professor of communication acoustics rensselaer polytechn. The psychophysics of human sound localization by jens blauert pdf, epub ebook d0wnl0ad the field of spatial hearing has exploded in the decade or so since jens blauerts classic work on acoustics was first published in english. Jens blauert, dbochum from binaural technology to virtual reality prominent features of binaural hearinglocalization formation of positions of the auditory events azimuth, elevation, distance, spatial extent, auditory room impression, immersion suppression of the directional information coming from reflections. Fortunately, for those of us who really want a clear and comprehensive overview of how the human hearing system works to identify the location of sounds, there is one book cited above all others that serves as the text on the subject.
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