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A text-book of experimental psychology.On binaural experience.

A text-book of experimental psychology.: On binaural experience. Binaural Differences and the Perception of Sound.—The inequality in effect of a given sound upon the two ears plays an important part in determining our appreciation of its direction. Tactual Differences.—The binaural differences, in virtue of which we are able to localise a given sound, have been referred by Wundt and others to the tactual sensations evoked by sound vibrations from the two auricles and tympanic membranes. Labyrinthine Differences.—The suggestion has also been put forward by Preyer that our powers of auditory localisation are connected with the peculiar orientation of the three pairs of semicircular canals in the three planes of space, the various canals being differently stimulated according to the direction of the sound. Münsterberg supposes that the effect of auditory stimulation of a given canal would be to cause the head reflexively to turn in the plane of that canal, and that the kinesthetic sensations arising from such various head movements form the basis of our judgment of sound direction. Temporal Differences.—A third possible cause of the unlike effects produced by a sound on the two ears lies in temporal differences of stimulation. Phase Differences.—There are but three other conceivable ways in which a given source of sound may differently affect the two ears, namely, by virtue of differences in phase, in timbre, or in intensity. By differences in timbre we mean differences in the relative intensity of the overtones to one another and to the fundamental tone. By difference of phase we mean the effect due to the unequal distances of the two ears from the single source of sound, in consequence of which the sound waves, falling at any moment on the two ears, are in unlike phase. We can experimentally show that changes in the phase relation of the sound stimuli reaching the two ears produce distinct changes in the apparent direction of the sound, whether the source of sound for each ear is the same or different (experiments 138, 139). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Longmans, Green and Co
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Copyright © 1909 American Psychological Association
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286 –292
DOI
10.1037/13628-021
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Binaural Differences and the Perception of Sound.—The inequality in effect of a given sound upon the two ears plays an important part in determining our appreciation of its direction. Tactual Differences.—The binaural differences, in virtue of which we are able to localise a given sound, have been referred by Wundt and others to the tactual sensations evoked by sound vibrations from the two auricles and tympanic membranes. Labyrinthine Differences.—The suggestion has also been put forward by Preyer that our powers of auditory localisation are connected with the peculiar orientation of the three pairs of semicircular canals in the three planes of space, the various canals being differently stimulated according to the direction of the sound. Münsterberg supposes that the effect of auditory stimulation of a given canal would be to cause the head reflexively to turn in the plane of that canal, and that the kinesthetic sensations arising from such various head movements form the basis of our judgment of sound direction. Temporal Differences.—A third possible cause of the unlike effects produced by a sound on the two ears lies in temporal differences of stimulation. Phase Differences.—There are but three other conceivable ways in which a given source of sound may differently affect the two ears, namely, by virtue of differences in phase, in timbre, or in intensity. By differences in timbre we mean differences in the relative intensity of the overtones to one another and to the fundamental tone. By difference of phase we mean the effect due to the unequal distances of the two ears from the single source of sound, in consequence of which the sound waves, falling at any moment on the two ears, are in unlike phase. We can experimentally show that changes in the phase relation of the sound stimuli reaching the two ears produce distinct changes in the apparent direction of the sound, whether the source of sound for each ear is the same or different (experiments 138, 139). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Feb 13, 2012

Keywords: binaural effects; auditory localization; phase relation; timbre; stimulus intensity; labyrinthine; tactual sensation; sound perception; semicircular canals; apparent direction; kinesthetic sensation

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