Binaural Hearing

Question 1

binaural

Answer 1

sound heard with two ears

Question 2

diotic

Answer 2

sound that is the same at both ears

Question 3

dichotic

Answer 3

sound that is different at both ears

Question 4

monoaural

Answer 4

sound heard with one receiver/ear

Question 5

azimuth

Answer 5

where a sound is on a plane from the observer (forward and left or back and right for example)

Question 6

what are the two primary cues for azimuth?

Answer 6

phase difference (as a time difference) and intensity difference

Question 7

what frequencies are effected by the head shadow

Answer 7

above 500 hz and very noticeably about 2 khz

Question 8

precedence effect

Answer 8

the impulse function, or first version of a sound to reach the ear causes reverberations or followup sounds to be igrnored

Question 9

what is the echo threshold?

Answer 9

> 5 ms

Question 10

summing localization

Answer 10

when two sounds are combined

Question 11

threshold for summing localization

Answer 11

< 1 ms

Question 12

threshold for precedence effect

Answer 12

1 - 5 ms