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 interes
Don McBurney is having some email trouble and asked me to forward the
following:
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 5
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 divide
I'm trying to find some information on auditory localization discrimination.
Given a 360 degree space, how many discrete locations can we localize? What
is the resolution of our auditory location discrimination? The bottom line
question is what is the maximum number of simultaneous s
