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Sound Localization in Mammals, Models

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Models of sound localization for mammals describe or simulate the process of how the mammalian auditory system determines the position and/or spatial extent of one or multiple sound sources from cues it extracts from signals captured at the eardrums.

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Historical Overview

The first theories describing how the human auditory system can determine the position of a sound source appeared in the late nineteenth century after W. Thompson (1877), S. P. Thompson (1882), and Steinhauser (1877) discovered that interaural time and level differences occur between both ear signals if a sound source arrives from the side. The focus continued to be on so-called lateralization models, which explain how a sound source is perceived to the left or right based on interaural cues. The first model that describes an actual physiological mechanism of how the central nervous system localizes sound is the Jeffress model, which proposes a combination of delay lines and coincidence...

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Braasch, J. (2014). Sound Localization in Mammals, Models. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_436-1

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