ABSTRACT
The apparent position of a sound source in auditory space is influenced by a number of acoustical cues, including interaural differences in time and level and the spectral cues provided by pinna filtering. The relative salience of these cues varies as a function of several factors such as the listener’s a priori knowledge of source characteristics, source frequency content, the reliability and plausibility of the cues, and the consistency of the cues across the frequency spectrum. This chapter reviews the nature of the cues and the factors that affect their salience and describes the results of several experi ments that were designed to isolate the contributions of one or more of the cues to the apparent position of a sound source.
