EFFECTS OF HEAD MOVEMENTS ON SOUND LOCALIZATION WITH AN ELECTRONIC PSEUDOPHONE
Haruhiko Ohtsubo, Tomiko Teshima, Sachio Nakamizo · Japanese Psychological Research · 1980
An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of the electronic pseudophone on sound localization in the front field of the lateral dimension.Measurements of sound localization were taken with or without head movements when the interaural axis of the pseudophone was oriented normal (nonreversal) or 180° reversed (reversal). The results obtained from five subjects showed that:(a) The pseudophone produced a right/left reversal of apparent auditory location in reversal trials;(b) the head movements have an effect of decreasing the average errors of localization in nonreversal trials but increasing the average errors in reversal trials;(c) our pseudophone was satisfactory for further studies on acoustical transposition of the ears.