PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Interaural Time Difference, Sound Localization, Subwoofer

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Even though sound travels fast, the pressure waves do not arrive at both ears at the same time: sounds arrive sooner at the ear closer to the source, 2. Itds are largest at about 640 microseconds when sounds come directly from the left or directly from the right. Interpretations of itd (e. g. associating a given itd with a given angle) is critically dependent on the size of the head. If babies come out of the womb with their itd mechanisms prewired to the size of their infant heads, their sound localization abilities would steadily worsen as their heads grew during childhood and adolescence. Inverse-square law a principle stating that as distance from a source increases, intensity decreases faster such that decrease in intensity is equal to the distance squared: this general law also applies to optics and other forms of energy.

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