According to Coren, Ward, and Enns (Sensation and Perception, fifth
edition) citing Gulick, 1971, we have an auditory localization error of
from 10 to about 18 degrees, depending on frequency. To relate this to
your question, there would be an abolute upper limit of 36 sources (360
degrees
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According to David Green's An Introduction to Hearing, citing Mills,
1972,
the smallest discriminable difference between two sound sources can be
as
little as 1 degree, depending on frequency and direction (about
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By dumb coincidence, in the June 2001 issue of Physics Today, there is an interesting
brief article on auditory localization, cues that support such localization, and some
physiology to back up proposed mechanisms. The work is by Konishi and colleagues,
with barn owls (which have a very
TIPSters,
Since its beginning on June 1, 1992, TIPS has been run on our Vax computer
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Nancy
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Check out the appendix in the Judith
Rich Harris book ("The Nuture Assumption"). She has a section on this, complete
with empirical references.
Paul
Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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Birth order effects are no longer regarded as having any meaningful long-term
effects on personality. I don't have a specific reference, but the
developmental psychology chapter in Kalat's intro textbook outlines the
reason why such effects are limited - normally only witnessed in the family
