What is it about?
People typically experience sound from a SINGLE sound source at a location, somewhere “out there”. Your two ears typically work together to provide that single location perception by sound fusion across the ears. It is an automatic process and people often never experience situations when this does not happen. People with hearing impairment, hearing aids, and cochlear implants may have problems with fusion. This review paper discusses how to think about fusion across the ears and how to measure it.
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Why is it important?
This paper is most helpful for researchers. It is difficult to talk about binaural fusion with participants. It is difficult to measure fusion. This paper is a good starting point to think about how to approach such experiments.
Perspectives
Maybe it is so difficult to talk about binaural fusion because people usually never experience situations where you ears do not fuse sound.
Dr. Matthew J Goupell
University System of Maryland
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This page is a summary of: Binaural fusion: Complexities in definition and measurement, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2024, Acoustical Society of America (ASA),
DOI: 10.1121/10.0030476.
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