Perception of Vertically Separated Sound Sources in the Median Plane

Kim T, Pöntynen H. Perception of Vertically Separated Sound Sources in the Median Plane. In: AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 46. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20390

@inproceedings{Kim2019_20390,
  author = {Kim, Taeho and Pöntynen, Henri},
  title = {{Perception of Vertically Separated Sound Sources in the Median Plane}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio},
  note = {Paper 46},
  year = {2019},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20390}
}

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AB  - The ability of human listeners to segregate two sound sources was examined by conducting an experiment when the sources are concurrently presented from different directions in the median plane. A high-pass filtered pink noise was utilised as sound stimuli in a free-field condition and presented as either a pair of incoherent sound sources or a single-source. Subjects were tested with both monaural and binaural hearing, and responded whether they perceived sound from one or two directions. The responses showing "two directions" for pairwise stimuli exceeded 50% above 33.75° separation and reached above 70% at 67.5° in both hearing sessions. The difference in the ability to segregate sources in the median plane with binaural or monaural hearing was not prominently different.
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