PSY 166 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sound Localization, Azimuth, Retina

• School: Hofstra University
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 166
• Professor: Dr. Ploran

Document Summary

For sight, location of a stimulus is preserved and where it is in space is maintained in the retina. Sound stimuli all go into the same ear and are organized by frequency. So, we lose the location at the initial point of transduction, so we need to recreate it and have some computation in order to recreate it b/c it is not preserved in the initial processing of a stimuli. We maintain location in vision but lose it in sound. When talking about localization in sound we talk about 3 main measures. We need to find ways to identify these three aspects. When talking about whether the sound is more to our left or right we refer to the azimuth. When talking about a sound is below our head, at our head, or above our head is elevation. When talking about how close or far a sound is from you, we use distance: we don"t dwell on distance.