PMID: 9447931Feb 3, 1998Paper

The nature and distribution of errors in sound localization by human listeners

Hearing Research
S CarlileS Hyams

Abstract

Measurement of localization performance will reflect errors that relate to the sensory processing of the cues to sound location and the errors associated with the method by which the subject indicates the perceived location. This study has measured the ability of human subjects to localize a short noise burst presented in the free field with the subject indicating the perceived location by pointing their nose towards the source. Subjects were first trained using a closed loop training paradigm which involved instantaneous feedback as to the accuracy of head pointing which resulted in the reduction of residual localization errors and a rapid acquisition of the task by the subjects. Once trained, 19 subjects localized between 4 and 6 blocks of 76 target locations. The data were pooled and the distribution of errors associated with each target location was examined using spherical methods. Errors in the localization estimates for about one third of the locations were rotationally symmetrical about their mean but the remaining locations were best described by an elliptical distribution (Kent distributed). For about one half of the latter locations the orientations of the directions of the greatest variance of the distributions were...Continue Reading

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