NIH R01 · 2024
Spatial hearing in complex sound fields
SUMMARY Sound localization is a fundamental auditory ability that is facilitated by differences in the sound reaching each ear. Localization is important for safety and for auditory awareness in natural 3D environments. Binaural hearing also supports spatial release from masking, where detection and recognition are improved by spatially separating the primary source – the target – and interfering sources – the masker. Spatial release from masking is critical for speech recognition in noisy backgrounds, especially when the background contains competing speech. What we do not understand yet is the relationship between these two phenomena of binaural hearing – localization and spatial release…
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