Directional Hearing

1. Front Matter

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2. The Physical and Psychoacoustical Foundations of Directional Hearing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Physical Acoustics and Measurements Pertaining to Directional Hearing

      • George F. Kuhn

      Pages 3-25

   3. A New Approach to the Study of Human Sound Localization

      • Frederic L. Wightman, Doris J. Kistler, Mark E. Perkins

      Pages 26-48

   4. Lateralization

      • William A. Yost, Ervin R. Hafter

      Pages 49-84

   5. The Precedence Effect

      • P. M. Zurek

      Pages 85-105

3. Structure and Function of the Mammalian Binaural Nervous System

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-108

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   2. Central Auditory Pathways in Directional Hearing

      • John H. Casseday, Ellen Covey

      Pages 109-145

   3. Physiological Studies of Directional Hearing

      • Shigeyuki Kuwada, Tom C. T. Yin

      Pages 146-176

4. Directional Hearing in Vertebrates: Animal Psychophysics and Special Adaptations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Mechanisms for Directional Hearing among Nonmammalian Vertebrates

      • Richard R. Fay, Albert S. Feng

      Pages 179-213

   3. Directional Hearing and Sound Localization in Echolocating Animals

      • James A. Simmons

      Pages 214-225

   4. Binaural Hearing in Land Mammals

      • George Gourevitch

      Pages 226-246

5. Problems and Solutions of Directional Hearing in the Real World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. Hearing in Rooms

      • David A. Berkley

      Pages 249-260

   3. Binaural Directional Hearing—Impairments and Aids

      • H. Steven Colburn, P. M. Zurek, Nathaniel I. Durlach

      Pages 261-278

   4. Some Modern Techniques and Devices Used to Preserve and Enhance the Spatial Qualities of Sound

      • Constantine Trahiotis, Leslie R. Bernstein

      Pages 279-290

6. Back Matter

   Pages 291-305

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Some of the most creative scientists investigating directional hearing have contributed to this volume, providing a current and comprehensive overview of their work, their research problems, and the strategies they have used to solve them. They discuss many aspects of directional hearing from neuropsychological mechanisms underlying sound localization, through the variety of ways animals locate sound in space, to normal and pathological directional hearing in humans. This is a valuable source book for hearing scientists and clinicians, as well as for scientists without specialized background in spatial hearing, including psychologists, engineers, and biologists.

• Mammalia
• Nervous System
• adaptation
• animals
• system
• vertebrates

• Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

  William A. Yost

• Hunter College of the City, University of New York, New York, USA

  George Gourevitch

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