Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments

Robert Gilkey, Timothy R. Anderson

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317780250
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Writing & Presentation Skills

The current popular and scientific interest in virtual environments has provided a new impetus for investigating binaural and spatial hearing. However, the many intriguing phenomena of spatial hearing have long made it an exciting area of scientific inquiry. Psychophysical and physiological investigations of spatial hearing seem to be converging on common explanations of underlying mechanisms. These understandings have in turn been incorporated into sophisticated yet mathematically tractable models of binaural interaction. Thus, binaural and spatial hearing is one of the few areas in which professionals are soon likely to find adequate physiological explanations of complex psychological phenomena that can be reasonably and usefully approximated by mathematical and physical models. This volume grew out of the Conference on Binaural and Spatial Hearing, a four-day event held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in response to rapid developments in binaural and spatial hearing research and technology. Meant to be more than just a proceedings, it presents chapters that are longer than typical proceedings papers and contain considerably more review material, including extensive bibliographies in many cases. Arranged into topical sections, the chapters represent major thrusts in the recent literature. The authors of the first chapter in each section have been encouraged to take a broad perspective and review the current state of literature. Subsequent chapters in each section tend to be somewhat more narrowly focused, and often emphasize the authors' own work. Thus, each section provides overview, background, and current research on a particular topic. This book is significant in that it reviews the important work during the past 10 to 15 years, and provides greater breadth and depth than most of the previous works.

Author Index

Abel, S. M., 726, 750

Abeles, M., 453, 471

Adams, J. C., 411, 412, 420, 441, 443

Adolphs, R., 64, 74

Aertsen, A., 469, 472

Ahalt, S., 561, 570

Ahissar, E., 277, 290, 298, 312, 327, 460, 464, 468, 469, 470, 473

Ahissar, M., 277, 290, 298, 312, 327, 460, 464, 468, 469, 470

Aitkin, L. M., 400, 404, 411, 412, 414, 415, 420, 421, 424, 442, 443, 449, 452, 453, 457–460, 464, 468, 470, 472, 476, 478, 490, 497

Albright, L., 614, 657

Allard, M., 739, 751

Allen, J. B., 639, 655, 706, 723, 755, 766, 774

Alphei, H., 173, 190

Altman, J. A., 275, 277, 278, 280, 290, 291, 298, 312, 324, 326, 327, 400, 414, 420

Altschuler, R. A., 442, 445

Anand, S., 652, 662

Anazawa, T., 712, 724

Andersen, R. A., 411, 412, 420, 424

Anderson, C. A. B., 412, 421

Anderson, D., 276, 291

Anderson, D. J., 404, 407, 414, 415, 421, 424, 452, 464, 470, 472

Anderson, K., 618, 630, 663

Anderson, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• I SOUND LOCALIZATION
• II LATERALIZATION AND BINAURAL MASKING
• III ECHOES, PRECEDENCE, AND DEPTH PERCEPTION
• IV MOTION PERCEPTION
• V SOUND SOURCE SEGREGATION AND FREE-FIELD MASKING
• VI PHYSIOLOGY OF SPATIAL HEARING
• VII MODELS OF SPATIAL HEARING
• VIII DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL HEARING
• IX APPLICATIONS
• Author Index
• Subject Index