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    This document is the contents page for the book "Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization" by Jens Blauert. It provides an overview of the book, which discusses how humans perceive the location and separation of sound sources based on psychoacoustic experiments. The book is divided into multiple chapters that cover topics like localization of a single sound source, localization of multiple sound sources, the signals received at each ear, and technological applications of research on spatial hearing. It also includes prefaces, an introduction, references, and indexes.

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    Spatial Hearing

    The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization


    Revised edition

    Jens Blauert

    The MIT Press


    Cambridge, Massachusetts
    London, England
    Contents

    Preface to the Revised Edition vii


    Preface to the American Edition ix
    Preface to the German Edition xi
    1 Introduction 1
    1.1 Auditory Events and Auditory Space 2
    1.2 Systems Analysis of the Auditory Experiment 5
    1.3 Remarks Concerning Experimental Procedures 12
    (Psychometric methods; Signals and soundfields;probe
    microphones)
    2 Spatial Hearing with One Sound Source 36
    2.1 Localization and Localization Blur 37
    2.2 The Sound Field at the Two Ears 50
    (Propagation in the ear canal; the pinna and the effect of the
    head; transfer functions of the external ear)
    2.3 Evaluating Identical Ear Input Signals 93
    (Directional hearing in the median plane; distance hearing
    and inside-the-head locatedness)
    2.4 Evaluating Nonidentical Ear Input Signals 137
    (Interaural time differences; interaural level differences; the
    interaction of interaural time and level differences)
    2.5 Additional Parameters 177
    (Motional theories; bone-condition, Visual, vestibulär, and
    tactile theories)
    3 Spatial Hearing with Multiple Sound Sources and in Enclosed
    Spaces 201
    3.1 Two Sound Sources Radiating Coherent Signals 203
    (Summing localization; the law of the first wavefront;
    Inhibition of the primary sound)
    VI Contents

    3.2 Two Sound Sources Radiating Partially Coherent or


    Incoherent Signals 237
    (The influence of the degree of coherence; binaural signal
    detection)
    3.3 More than Two Sound Sources and Diffuse Sound
    Fields 271
    4 Progress and Trends since 1972 288
    4.1 Preliminary Remarks 288
    4.2 The Physics of the External Ear 289
    (Transfer functions of the external ear; area function and
    termination of the ear canal; analysis of transfer
    characteristics)
    4.3 Evaluation of Monaural Attributes of the Ear Input
    Signals 304
    4.4 Evaluation of Interaural Attributes of the Ear Input
    Signals 312
    (Lateralization and multiple auditory events; summing
    localization and the law of thefirstwavefront; binaural
    localization, signal detection, and speech recognition in the
    presence of interfering noise; modeis of binaural signal
    processing)
    4.5 Examples of Applications 347
    (The auditory spatial impression; dummy-head stereophony)
    5 Progress and Trends since 1982 369
    5.1 Preliminary Remarks 369
    5.2 Binaural Room Simulation and Auditory Virtual
    Reality 372
    5.3 Binaural Signal Processing and Speech Enhancement 393
    5.4 The Precedence Effect: A Case of Cognition 409
    Bibliography 423
    Author Index 481
    Subject Index 489

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