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A Method to Study Adaptation to Left-Right Reversed Audition
Published on: October 29, 2018
Direct comparison of the impact of head tracking, reverberation, and individualized head-related transfer functions
D R Begault1, E M Wenzel, M R Anderson
1Human Factors Research and Technology Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
Abstract:
A study of sound localization performance was conducted using headphone-delivered virtual speech stimuli, rendered via HRTF-based acoustic auralization software and hardware, and blocked-meatus HRTF measurements. The independent variables were chosen to evaluate commonly held assumptions in the literature regarding improved localization: inclusion of head tracking, individualized HRTFs, and early and diffuse reflections. Significant effects were found for azimuth and elevation error, reversal rates, and externalization.
