PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Acoustic Shadow, Cochlea, Sound Pressure

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3690
• Professor: Alistair Mapp

Document Summary

Auditory localization is the ability to tell where sound is coming from. The ability to separate one stream of sound from another is called auditory stream. Music taps into mechanisms beyond those just responsible for hearing sound. One of those segregation. mechanisms involves the connection between music and movement. The locating of sound sources in auditory space is auditory localization. Sounds at different locations create an auditory space, which exists all around, wherever. Two tones with the same frequency that originate in different locations will activate the same. The auditory system must use location cues that are created by the way sound interacts with hair cells and nerve fibers in the cochlea. the listener"s head and ears to determine location. Binaural cues depend on both ears, and monaural cues depend on just one ear. Binaural cues use information reaching both ears to determine the azimuth of sounds. The two binaural cues are interaural level difference and interaural time difference.