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auditory localization  

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  • Humans and most other animals can locate the source of sound in all three spatial dimensions: left-right (horizontal or azimuth) dimension, up-down (vertical) dimension, and near-far (distance or range) dimension. The sound produced by a sound source has no spatial properties, only the physical properties of frequency, intensity, and time. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Auditory Localization: Psychophysics]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-H8LJG2Q3-M

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